Harpale (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Harpale (Ancient Greek: Αρπάλε) was the mother of Poseidon's son Cycnus, king of Colonae in Troad.[1] Otherwise, the mother of the latter was called Scamandrodice[2] or Calyce, daughter of Hecaton,[3] or lastly, an unknown Nereid.[4]

  1. ^ Scholia on Pindar, Olympian Ode 2.147
  2. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, Alexandra 232
  3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  4. ^ Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 78.