In Greek mythology, Candybus (Ancient Greek: Κάνδυβος, romanized: Kándubos) was a Phthian prince. Candybus was the son of the King Deucalion1 and probably Pyrrha, daughter of the Titan Epimetheus and Pandora. He was the possible brother of Hellen,2 Amphictyon,3 Pandora II,45 Protogeneia,2 Thyia6 and Melantho.7
Stephanus of Byzantium reports a mythic tradition that the town of Kandyba in Lycia was named after Candybus.1
Notes
Notes
- Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Kandyba (Κάνδυβα)
- Apollodorus, 1.7.2
- Apollodorus, 1.7.2 & 3.14.6
- Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 2 (Most, 2007) as cited in Ioan Lydus, De Mensibus 1.13 (p. 7.25 Wünsch)
- Most, Glenn W. (2007). Hesioi: The Shield, Catalogue of Women and Other Fragments. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard University Press. pp. 42–45. ISBN 978-0-674-99623-6.
- Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 3 as cited in Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Thematibus, 2 (p. 86 sq. Pertusi)
- Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 208
References
References
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.