Editing Caunos (mythology)

{{Short description|Mythical son of Miletus and Cyane}}
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In [[Greek mythology]], '''Caunos''', '''Caunus''' or '''Kaunos''' ({{langx|grc|Καῦνος}}) was a son of [[Miletus (mythology)|Miletus]], grandson of [[Apollo]] and brother of [[Byblis]].<ref name=":0">[[Parthenius of Nicaea|Parthenius]], [https://topostext.org/work/550#11 11] from [[Aristocritus (writer)|Aristocritus]]' ''History of Miletus'' and the ''Foundation of Caunus'' by [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]</ref> 

== Mythology ==
Caunus became the object of his own sister's passionate love. From some accounts it appears that Caunus was the first to develop the affection towards her;<ref>[[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]], [https://topostext.org/work/489#2 2]; [[Scholia]] on [[Theocritus]], ''Idyll'' 7.115</ref> others describe Byblis' feelings as unrequited.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' 446–665</ref><ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#30 30]</ref><ref name=":0" /> All sources agree, however, that Caunus chose to flee from home in order to prevent himself from actually committing incest with Byblis, and that she followed him until she was completely exhausted by grief and died (or committed suicide).

Caunus eventually came to [[Lycia]], where he married the [[Naiad]] [[Pronoe]] and had by her a son [[Aegialus (mythology)|Aegialus]]. Caunus became king of the land; when he died, Aegialus gathered all the people from scattered settlements in a newly founded city which he named [[Caunus]] after his father.<ref name="Conon">Conon, [https://topostext.org/work/489#2 2]</ref>

==Notes==
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== References ==

* [[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Conon (mythographer)|Conon]]'', Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople'' translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. [https://web.archive.org/web/20190322161405/https://topostext.org/work/489 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Parthenius of Nicaea|Parthenius]], ''Love Romances'' translated by Sir Stephen Gaselee (1882-1943), S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 69. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. 1916.  [https://topostext.org/work/550 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* Parthenius, ''Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Vol. 1''. Rudolf Hercher. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1858. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0643 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Ovid|Publius Ovidius Naso]], ''Metamorphoses'' translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Ovidius Naso, ''Metamorphoses.'' Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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