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Kuaneh
Kyaneê
Cyanea
Azure-Blue (kyanos) |
KYANEE (Cyanea) was the Naiad Nymph of a spring or fountain of the town of Miletos in Karia. She was a daughter of the River Maiandros, and the wife of the town's founding king, Miletos.
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| MAIANDROS (Ovid Metamorphoses 9.446, Nonnus Dionysiaca 11.449) |
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| KAUNOS, BYBLIS (by Miletos) (Ovid Metamorphoses 9.446) |
"[Miletos] built the battlements that keep their founder's name; where, as she strolled beside Maeander's winding banks, her father's stream, that turns so often back upon its course, he joined in love a Nympha of beauty rare, Cyanee, who one day bore him there Byblis and Caunus, twins, a tragic pair." - Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.450
"[Kalamos son of the river Maiandros calling out to his drowned love Karpos:] ‘If one Nymphe of the Naiades enamoured has carried you off, tell me, and I will make war on them all! If wedded love is your pleasure is your pleasure, and you want my sister [Kyanea] for a wife, do but say so and I will build you a bridechamber in the stream." - Nonnus, Dionysiaca 11.449
Sources:
- Ovid, Metamorphoses - Latin Epic C1st BC - C1st AD
- Nonnos, Dionysiaca - Greek Epic C5th AD
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