Editing Cydippe

{{For|the genus of ctenophores|Cydippe (ctenophore)}}
{{Greek myth (aquatic nymphs)}}
The name '''Cydippe''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Κυδίππη ''Kudíppē'') is attributed to four individuals in [[Greek mythology]].

*Cydippe, one of the 50 [[Nereids]], sea-[[nymph]] daughters of the '[[Old Man of the Sea]]' [[Nereus]] and the [[Oceanids|Oceanid]] [[Doris (Oceanid)|Doris]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#p.7 Preface]</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Bane|first=Theresa|title=Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology|publisher=McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers|year=2013|isbn=9780786471119|page=93}}</ref> She was in the train of [[Cyrene (mythology)|Cyrene]] along with her sisters.<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Georgics]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0690.phi002.perseus-eng1:4.333-4.386 4.339]</ref>
*Cydippe, also called [[Crybia]] or [[Lysippe]],<ref>Footnote 92 as cited in [[Pliny the Elder]], ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Naturalis Historia]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137:book=35:chapter=36&highlight=cercaphus#92 35.36]</ref> the daughter of the [[nymph]] [[Hegetoria]] and [[Ochimus]], king of [[Rhodes]]. She married her paternal uncle, [[Cercaphus]], who inherited the island.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#57.7 5.57.7]</ref> According to an alternate version, Ochimus engaged Cydippe to [[Ocridion]] but Cercaphus loved her and kidnapped her. He did not return until Ochimus was old.<ref>[[Plutarch]], ''Quaestiones Graecae'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0215:section=27&highlight=cercaphus 27]</ref> Cydippe was by Cercaphus the mother of [[Cameirus (mythology)|Cameirus]], [[Ialysus (mythology)|Ialysus]], and [[Lindus (mythology)|Lindes]]. Each of them founded a town in Rhodes and named it after himself.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/5D*.html#57.8 5.57.8]</ref>
*[[Cydippe (mother of Cleobis)|Cydippe]], mother of [[Kleobis and Biton|Cleobis and Biton]].<ref>[[Herodotus]], 1.31</ref>
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*Cydippe, an [[Athens|Athenian]] girl who was obliged to marry [[Acontius]].<ref>[[Callimachus]], ''Cydippe''; [[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' 20-21</ref>

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== References ==

* [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''The Library of History'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. [http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Herodotus]], ''The Histories'' with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|0-674-99133-8}}. [https://topostext.org/work/22 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0125 Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Plutarch|Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus]], ''Moralia'' with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0215 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0213 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[Pliny the Elder]], ''The Natural History.'' John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia.'' Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0138 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* [[Ovid|Publius Ovidius Naso]], ''The Epistles of Ovid.'' London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0085%3Apoem%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
*[[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]], ''Bucolics'', ''Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0058 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].

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