Cycnus (son of Ares)

For other uses, see Cycnus.
Zeus parts Athena and Ares, while Kyknos flees in a chariot (right) as Heracles arrives (left),[1] on an Attic black-figured volute-krater, c. 540–510 BCE signed by Nikosthenes (British Museum).

In Greek mythology, Cycnus (Ancient Greek: Κύκνος means "swan") or Cygnus was a bloodthirsty and cruel man who dwelt either in Pagasae, Thessaly or by the river Echedorus in Macedonia.

  1. ^ This scene has also been interpreted as a Gigantomachy. H. Shapiro, "Herakles and Kyknos", AJA, Vol. 88, No. 4 (October 1984), p. 524.