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For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Ceyx_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Ceyx (disambiguation)">Ceyx (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Alcyone_and_Ceyx_transformed_into_Halycons_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Alcyone_and_Ceyx_transformed_into_Halycons_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Alcyone_and_Ceyx_transformed_into_Halycons_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="292" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Alcyone_and_Ceyx_transformed_into_Halycons_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Alcyone_and_Ceyx_transformed_into_Halycons_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Alcyone_and_Ceyx_transformed_into_Halycons_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Alcyone_and_Ceyx_transformed_into_Halycons_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1258" data-file-height="1669" /></a><figcaption><i>Alcyone and Ceyx Transformed into Halcyons</i></figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, <b>Alcyone</b> (or dubiously <b>Halcyone</b>)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span></span>,<span class="wrap"> </span><span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'h' in 'hi'">h</span><span title="/æ/: 'a' in 'bad'">æ</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/aɪ/: 'i' in 'tide'">aɪ</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˌ/: secondary stress follows">ˌ</span><span title="'n' in 'nigh'">n</span><span title="/i/: 'y' in 'happy'">i</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Ἀλκυόνη</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ancient_Greek" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Ancient Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ancient Greek-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Alkyónē</i></span>) and <b>Ceyx</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="/ɪ/: 'i' in 'kit'">ɪ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <span title="Ancient Greek-language text"><span lang="grc">Κήϋξ</span></span>, <span title="Ancient Greek-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">Kḗÿx</i></span>) were a wife and husband who incurred the wrath of the god <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> for their romantic <a href="/wiki/Hubris" title="Hubris">hubris</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcyone_and_Ceyx&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Alkyóne comes from alkyón (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἀλκυών</span></span>), which refers to a sea-bird with a mournful song<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or to a <a href="/wiki/Common_kingfisher" title="Common kingfisher">kingfisher</a> bird in particular.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The meaning(s) of the words is uncertain because <i>alkyón</i> is considered to be of pre-<a href="/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language">Greek</a>, non-<a href="/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" title="Proto-Indo-European language">Indo-European</a> origin.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, <a href="/wiki/Folk_etymology" title="Folk etymology">folk etymology</a> related them to the <i>háls</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἅλς</span></span>, "brine, sea, salt") and <i>kyéo</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">κυέω</span></span>, "I conceive"). Alkyóne originally is written with a <a href="/wiki/Smooth_breathing" title="Smooth breathing">smooth breathing</a> mark, but this false origin beginning with a <a href="/wiki/Rough_breathing" title="Rough breathing">rough breathing</a> mark (transliterated as the letter H) led to the common misspellings <i>halkyón</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἁλκυών</span></span>) and <i>Halkyóne</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Ἁλκυόνη</span></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and thus the name of one of the kingfisher bird <a href="/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genus</a>' in English <a href="/wiki/Halcyon_(genus)" title="Halcyon (genus)">Halcyon</a>. It is also speculated that Alkyóne is derived from <i>alké</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἀλκή</span></span>, "prowess, battle, guard") and <i>onéo</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ὀνέω</span></span>, from <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ὀνίνεμι</span></span>, <i>onínemi</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "to help, to please").<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kéyx as referring to a sea-bird appears to be related to <i>kaúax</i> (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">καύαξ</span></span>),<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is a ravenous sea-bird (<span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">λάρος</span></span>, <i>láros</i>). These suggest that Kéyx may have been turned into either a <a href="/wiki/Common_gull" title="Common gull">sea mew</a> or a <a href="/wiki/Tern" title="Tern">tern</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mythology">Mythology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcyone_and_Ceyx&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Mythology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Herbert_James_Draper_-_Halcyone_(1915).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Herbert_James_Draper_-_Halcyone_%281915%29.jpg/280px-Herbert_James_Draper_-_Halcyone_%281915%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="280" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Herbert_James_Draper_-_Halcyone_%281915%29.jpg/420px-Herbert_James_Draper_-_Halcyone_%281915%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Herbert_James_Draper_-_Halcyone_%281915%29.jpg/560px-Herbert_James_Draper_-_Halcyone_%281915%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4073" data-file-height="2811" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Herbert_James_Draper" title="Herbert James Draper">Herbert James Draper</a>, <i>Halcyone</i>, 1915.</figcaption></figure> <p>Alcyone was a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Thessaly" title="Ancient Thessaly">Thessalian</a> princess, the daughter of King <a href="/wiki/Aeolus_(son_of_Hellen)" title="Aeolus (son of Hellen)">Aeolus</a> of Aeolia, either by <a href="/wiki/Enarete" title="Enarete">Enarete</a><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Aegiale_(daughter_of_Helios)" class="mw-redirect" title="Aegiale (daughter of Helios)">Aegiale</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was the sister of <a href="/wiki/Salmoneus" title="Salmoneus">Salmoneus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athamas" title="Athamas">Athamas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sisyphus" title="Sisyphus">Sisyphus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cretheus" title="Cretheus">Cretheus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perieres_(king_of_Messenia)" title="Perieres (king of Messenia)">Perieres</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deioneus" title="Deioneus">Deioneus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magnes_(son_of_Aeolus)" title="Magnes (son of Aeolus)">Magnes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Calyce_(mythology)" title="Calyce (mythology)">Calyce</a>, <a href="/wiki/Canace" title="Canace">Canace</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pisidice" title="Pisidice">Pisidice</a> and <a href="/wiki/Perimede_(mythology)" title="Perimede (mythology)">Perimede</a>. </p><p>Later on, Alcyone became the queen of <a href="/wiki/Trachis" title="Trachis">Trachis</a> after marrying King <a href="/wiki/Ceyx_of_Trachis" title="Ceyx of Trachis">Ceyx</a>. The latter was the son of <a href="/wiki/Phosphorus_(morning_star)#mythology" title="Phosphorus (morning star)">Eosphorus</a> (often translated as <a href="/wiki/Lucifer" title="Lucifer">Lucifer</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The couple were very happy together in Trachis. </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Apollodorus" class="mw-redirect" title="Pseudo-Apollodorus">Pseudo-Apollodorus</a>'s account, this couple often <a href="/wiki/Sacrilege" title="Sacrilege">sacrilegiously</a> called each other "<a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a>" and "<a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This angered Zeus, so while Ceyx was at sea (in order to consult an oracle, according to <a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Ovid</a>), he killed Ceyx with a thunderbolt. Soon after, <a href="/wiki/Morpheus_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Morpheus (mythology)">Morpheus</a>, the god of dreams, disguised as Ceyx, appeared to Alcyone to tell her of her husband's fate. In her grief she threw herself into the sea. Out of compassion, the gods changed them both into "halcyon birds" (<a href="/wiki/Common_kingfisher" title="Common kingfisher">common kingfishers</a>), named after her. Apollodorus says that Ceyx was turned into a <a href="/wiki/Gannet" title="Gannet">gannet</a>, and not a kingfisher. </p><p>Ovid<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Hyginus<sup id="cite_ref-:0_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both also recount the metamorphosis of the pair in and after Ceyx's loss in a terrible storm, though they both omit Ceyx and Alcyone calling each other "Zeus" and "Hera" (and Zeus's resulting anger) as a reason for it. On the contrary, it is mentioned that while still unaware of Ceyx's death in the shipwreck, Alcyone continued to pray at the altar of Hera for his safe return.<sup id="cite_ref-Roman,_L._2010_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roman,_L._2010-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ovid also adds the detail of her seeing his body washed ashore before her attempted suicide. <a href="/wiki/Pseudo-Probus" title="Pseudo-Probus">Pseudo-Probus</a>, a scholiast on Virgil's <i>Georgics</i>, notes that Ovid followed <a href="/wiki/Nicander" title="Nicander">Nicander</a>'s version of the tale, instead of Theodorus's starring another <a href="/wiki/Alcyone_(daughter_of_Sciron)" title="Alcyone (daughter of Sciron)">Alcyone</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a> in the <i><a href="/wiki/Georgics" title="Georgics">Georgics</a></i> also alludes to the myth—again without reference to Zeus's anger.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is possible that the earlier myth was a simpler version of the one by Nicander, where a woman named Alcyone mourned her unnamed husband; Ceyx was probably added later due to him being an important figure in mythology and poetry, and also having a wife whose name was Alcyone (as evidenced from the <a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiodic</a> poem <i><a href="/wiki/Wedding_of_Ceyx" title="Wedding of Ceyx">Wedding of Ceyx</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Halcyon_days">Halcyon days</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcyone_and_Ceyx&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Halcyon days"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ovid and Hyginus both also make the metamorphosis the origin of the term "<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/halcyon_days" class="extiw" title="wiktionary:halcyon days">halcyon days</a>", the seven days in winter when storms never occur. They state that these were originally the 14 days each year (seven days on either side of the <a href="/wiki/Winter_solstice" title="Winter solstice">shortest day of the year</a><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) during which Alcyone (as a <a href="/wiki/Kingfisher" title="Kingfisher">kingfisher</a>) made her nest on the beach and laid her eggs while her father <a href="/wiki/Aeolus" title="Aeolus">Aeolus</a>, the god of the winds, helped her do so safely by restraining the winds and thus calming the waves.<sup id="cite_ref-Roman,_L._2010_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roman,_L._2010-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The phrase has since come to refer to any peaceful time. Its proper meaning, however, is that of a lucky break, or a bright interval set in the midst of adversity; just as the days of calm and mild weather are set in the height of winter for the sake of the kingfishers' egglaying according to the myth. Kingfishers however do not live by the sea, so Ovid's tale is not based on any actual observations of the species and in fact refers to a mythical bird only later identified with the kingfisher. </p><p>The expression <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἀλκῠονίδες ἡμέραι</span></span> (<span title="Ancient Greek transliteration" lang="grc-Latn"><i>alkuonídes hēmérai</i></span>) first occurs in <a href="/wiki/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes</a>' play <i>The Birds</i> 1594, then again in <a href="/wiki/Aristotle" title="Aristotle">Aristotle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Philochorus" title="Philochorus">Philochorus</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Latin it occurs as <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">alcyonides dies</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Pliny_the_Elder" title="Pliny the Elder">Pliny the Elder</a>, <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">alcyonei</i></span> (<i>-nĭī</i>) <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">diēs</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Columella" title="Columella">Columella</a> and <a href="/wiki/Marcus_Terentius_Varro" title="Marcus Terentius Varro">Varro</a>, <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">alcyonia</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, and <span title="Latin-language text"><i lang="la">alcedonia</i></span> in <a href="/wiki/Plautus" title="Plautus">Plautus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frontinus" title="Frontinus">Frontinus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Legacy">Legacy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcyone_and_Ceyx&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Various kinds of <a href="/wiki/Kingfisher" title="Kingfisher">kingfishers</a> are named after the couple, in reference to the metamorphosis myth: <ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Genus" title="Genus">genus</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Ceyx_(kingfisher)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ceyx (kingfisher)">Ceyx</a></i> (within the <a href="/wiki/River_kingfishers" class="mw-redirect" title="River kingfishers">river kingfishers</a> <a href="/wiki/Family_(biology)" title="Family (biology)">family</a>) is named after him</li> <li>The kingfisher family Halcyonidae (<a href="/wiki/Tree_kingfisher" title="Tree kingfisher">tree kingfishers</a>) is named after Alcyone, as is the genus <i><a href="/wiki/Halcyon_(genus)" title="Halcyon (genus)">Halcyon</a></i>.</li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Belted_kingfisher" title="Belted kingfisher">belted kingfisher</a>'s Latin species name (<i>Megaceryle alcyon</i>) also references her name.</li></ul></li> <li>Their story features in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Book_of_the_Duchess" title="The Book of the Duchess">The Book of the Duchess</a></i>.</li> <li>Their story is the basis for the opera <i><a href="/wiki/Alcyone_(opera)" title="Alcyone (opera)">Alcyone</a></i> by the French composer <a href="/wiki/Marin_Marais" title="Marin Marais">Marin Marais</a> and the cantata <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcyone_(Ravel_cantata)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alcyone (Ravel cantata) (page does not exist)">Alcyone</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Ravel" title="Maurice Ravel">Maurice Ravel</a></li> <li>A collection of Canada's celebrated nature poet, <a href="/wiki/Archibald_Lampman" title="Archibald Lampman">Archibald Lampman</a>, <i>Alcyone</i>, his final set of poetry published posthumously in 1899, highlights both Lampman's apocalyptic and utopian visions of the future.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._S._Eliot" title="T. S. Eliot">T. S. Eliot</a> draws from this myth in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Dry_Salvages" title="The Dry Salvages">The Dry Salvages</a></i>: "And the ragged rock in the restless waters,/Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it;/On a halcyon day it is merely a monument,/In navigable weather it is always a seamark/To lay a course by: but in the sombre season/Or the sudden fury, is what it always was."</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcyone_and_Ceyx&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed-hover"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 214px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 212px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Virgil_Solis_-_Alcyone_Juno.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Alcyone praying Juno, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 573-582"><img alt="Alcyone praying Juno, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 573-582" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Virgil_Solis_-_Alcyone_Juno.jpg/318px-Virgil_Solis_-_Alcyone_Juno.jpg" decoding="async" width="212" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Virgil_Solis_-_Alcyone_Juno.jpg/477px-Virgil_Solis_-_Alcyone_Juno.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/Virgil_Solis_-_Alcyone_Juno.jpg 2x" data-file-width="604" data-file-height="456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 192px"><div class="gallerytext"><i>Alcyone praying Juno</i>, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 573-582</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 214px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 212px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx_Tempest.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ceyx in the tempest, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 410-572"><img alt="Ceyx in the tempest, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 410-572" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx_Tempest.jpg/318px-Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx_Tempest.jpg" decoding="async" width="212" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx_Tempest.jpg/477px-Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx_Tempest.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx_Tempest.jpg 2x" data-file-width="612" data-file-height="462" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 192px"><div class="gallerytext"><i>Ceyx in the tempest</i>, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 410-572</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 216px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 214px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx-Morpheus_Alcyone.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ceyx/ Morpheus appears to Alcyone, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 650–749."><img alt="Ceyx/ Morpheus appears to Alcyone, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 650–749." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx-Morpheus_Alcyone.jpg/321px-Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx-Morpheus_Alcyone.jpg" decoding="async" width="214" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx-Morpheus_Alcyone.jpg/481px-Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx-Morpheus_Alcyone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Virgil_Solis_-_Ceyx-Morpheus_Alcyone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="602" data-file-height="451" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 194px"><div class="gallerytext"><i>Ceyx/ Morpheus appears to Alcyone</i>, engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 650–749.</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 247.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 245.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Johann_Wilhelm_Baur_-_Morpheus_in_the_house_of_Ceyx,_before_Alcyone.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ceyx/ Morpheus appears to Alcyone, engraving (or etching more likely) by Bauer for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 633–676."><img alt="Ceyx/ Morpheus appears to Alcyone, engraving (or etching more likely) by Bauer for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 633–676." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Johann_Wilhelm_Baur_-_Morpheus_in_the_house_of_Ceyx%2C_before_Alcyone.jpg/368px-Johann_Wilhelm_Baur_-_Morpheus_in_the_house_of_Ceyx%2C_before_Alcyone.jpg" decoding="async" width="246" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Johann_Wilhelm_Baur_-_Morpheus_in_the_house_of_Ceyx%2C_before_Alcyone.jpg/552px-Johann_Wilhelm_Baur_-_Morpheus_in_the_house_of_Ceyx%2C_before_Alcyone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Johann_Wilhelm_Baur_-_Morpheus_in_the_house_of_Ceyx%2C_before_Alcyone.jpg/736px-Johann_Wilhelm_Baur_-_Morpheus_in_the_house_of_Ceyx%2C_before_Alcyone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2500" data-file-height="1631" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 226px"><div class="gallerytext"><i>Ceyx/ Morpheus appears to Alcyone</i>, engraving (or etching more likely) by Bauer for Ovid's Metamorphoses Book XI, 633–676.</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 238px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 236px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ceyx_prenant_conge_d%27alcyone.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ceyx prenant congé d'Alcyone (15th century)"><img alt="Ceyx prenant congé d'Alcyone (15th century)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Ceyx_prenant_conge_d%27alcyone.jpg/354px-Ceyx_prenant_conge_d%27alcyone.jpg" decoding="async" width="236" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Ceyx_prenant_conge_d%27alcyone.jpg/531px-Ceyx_prenant_conge_d%27alcyone.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dc/Ceyx_prenant_conge_d%27alcyone.jpg 2x" data-file-width="672" data-file-height="456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 216px"><div class="gallerytext"><i>Ceyx prenant congé d'Alcyone</i> (15th century)</div> </div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 258px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 256px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Alcyone_ceyx.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Alcyone and Ceyx marble bas relief, originally at Parlington Hall, Aberford, removed to Lotherton Hall sometime after 1905."><img alt="Alcyone and Ceyx marble bas relief, originally at Parlington Hall, Aberford, removed to Lotherton Hall sometime after 1905." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Alcyone_ceyx.jpg/384px-Alcyone_ceyx.jpg" decoding="async" width="256" height="160" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Alcyone_ceyx.jpg/576px-Alcyone_ceyx.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Alcyone_ceyx.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="400" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytextwrapper" style="width: 236px"><div class="gallerytext">Alcyone and Ceyx marble bas relief, originally at Parlington Hall, Aberford, removed to Lotherton Hall sometime after 1905.</div> </div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcyone_and_Ceyx&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See 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(2010). <i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=tOgWfjNIxoMC&pg=PA55">Encyclopedia of Greek and Roman mythology </a></i>, p. 55, at <a href="/wiki/Google_Books" title="Google Books">Google Books</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFGildenhard2017" class="citation book cs1">Gildenhard, Ingo (July 5, 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wiMxDwAAQBAJ"><i>Transformative Change in Western Thought: A History of Metamorphosis from Homer to Hollywood</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a>. p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=wiMxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT164">164</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-907975-01-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-907975-01-1"><bdi>978-1-907975-01-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Transformative+Change+in+Western+Thought%3A+A+History+of+Metamorphosis+from+Homer+to+Hollywood&rft.pages=164&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2017-07-05&rft.isbn=978-1-907975-01-1&rft.aulast=Gildenhard&rft.aufirst=Ingo&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DwiMxDwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlcyone+and+Ceyx" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Virgil</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Georgics" title="Georgics">Georgics</a></i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0058%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D393">1.399</a> - "[At that time] not to the sun's warmth then upon the shore / Do halcyons dear to <a href="/wiki/Thetis" title="Thetis">Thetis</a> ope their wings"</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFForbes_Irving1990" class="citation book cs1">Forbes Irving, Paul M. C. (1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=URvXAAAAMAAJ"><i>Metamorphosis in Greek Myths</i></a>. <a href="/wiki/Clarendon_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="Clarendon Press">Clarendon Press</a>. p. 240. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-19-814730-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-19-814730-9"><bdi>0-19-814730-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Metamorphosis+in+Greek+Myths&rft.pages=240&rft.pub=Clarendon+Press&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=0-19-814730-9&rft.aulast=Forbes+Irving&rft.aufirst=Paul+M.+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DURvXAAAAMAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlcyone+and+Ceyx" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFWilliam_Smith1867" class="citation book cs1">William Smith, ed. (1867). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/ACL3129.0001.001/123"><i>Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology</i></a>. Volume 1. p. 108. <q>It was fabled, that during the seven days before, and as many after, the shortest day of the year, while the bird ἀλκυών, was breeding, there always prevailed calms at sea.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Greek+and+Roman+Biography+and+Mythology&rft.series=Volume+1&rft.pages=108&rft.date=1867&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fquod.lib.umich.edu%2Fm%2Fmoa%2FACL3129.0001.001%2F123&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAlcyone+and+Ceyx" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Liddell, Scott, Jones, <i>Greek Lexicon</i>, s.v. <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">ἀλκῠονίς</span></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Lewis and Short, <i>Latin Dictionary</i>.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="General_and_cited_references">General and cited references</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alcyone_and_Ceyx&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: General and cited references"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hesiod" title="Hesiod">Hesiod</a>, <i>Catalogue of Women</i> from <i>Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica</i> translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.theoi.com/Text/HesiodCatalogues.html">Online version at theoi.com</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gaius_Julius_Hyginus" title="Gaius Julius Hyginus">Hyginus</a>, <i>Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus</i> translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://topostext.org/work/206">Online version at the Topos Text Project.</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a>, <i>Graeciae Descriptio.</i> <i>3 vols</i>. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159">Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)">Pseudo-Apollodorus</a>, <i>The Library</i> with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021">Greek text available from the same website</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ovid" title="Ovid">Publius Ovidius Naso</a>, <i>Metamorphoses</i> translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0028">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.</a></li> <li>Publius Ovidius Naso, <i>Metamorphoses.</i> Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0029">Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virgil" title="Virgil">Publius Vergilius Maro</a>, <i>Bucolics</i>, <i>Aeneid, and Georgics of Vergil</i>. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0058">Online version at the Perseus Digital Library</a>.</li> <li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/William_Smith_(lexicographer)" title="William Smith (lexicographer)">Smith, William</a>, ed. 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title="Daedalion">Daedalion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erinoma" title="Erinoma">Erinoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Erodius" title="Erodius">Erodius</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eumelus" title="Eumelus">Eumelus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gerana" title="Gerana">Gerana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harmotho%C3%AB" title="Harmothoë">Harmothoë</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpalyce_(daughter_of_Clymenus)" title="Harpalyce (daughter of Clymenus)">Harpalyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpasus" title="Harpasus">Harpasus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harpe_(mythology)" title="Harpe (mythology)">Harpe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hierax_(mythology)" title="Hierax (mythology)">Hierax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hippodamia_(wife_of_Autonous)" title="Hippodamia (wife of Autonous)">Hippodamia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyperippe" title="Hyperippe">Hyperippe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyria_(mythology)" title="Hyria (mythology)">Hyria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ictinus_(mythology)" title="Ictinus 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title="Peristera (mythology)">Peristera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Picus" title="Picus">Picus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierides_(mythology)" title="Pierides (mythology)">Pierides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phene_(mythology)" title="Phene (mythology)">Phene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philaeus_(mythology)" title="Philaeus (mythology)">Philaeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philomela" title="Philomela">Philomela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pleiades_(Greek_mythology)" title="Pleiades (Greek mythology)">Pleiades</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polyphonte" title="Polyphonte">Polyphonte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Polytechnus" title="Polytechnus">Polytechnus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Procne" title="Procne">Procne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rhexenor" title="Rhexenor">Rhexenor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Schoeneus" title="Schoeneus">Schoeneus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scylla_(daughter_of_Nisus)" title="Scylla (daughter of Nisus)">Scylla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tereus" 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title="Aethalides (mythology)">Aethalides</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcimedon" title="Alcimedon">Alcimedon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dictys" title="Dictys">Dictys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Epopeus" title="Epopeus">Epopeus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Melas_(mythology)" title="Melas (mythology)">Melas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medon_(mythology)" title="Medon (mythology)">Medon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opheltes_(mythology)" title="Opheltes (mythology)">Opheltes</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="10" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Pygmalion_(Raoux).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Pygmalion and Galatea"><img alt="Pygmalion and Galatea" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Pygmalion_%28Raoux%29.jpg/91px-Pygmalion_%28Raoux%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="91" height="120" class="mw-file-element" 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title="Arethusa (Boeotia)">Arethusa (Boeotia)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arethusa_(mythology)" title="Arethusa (mythology)">Arethusa (Elis)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asteria" title="Asteria">Asteria</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atlas_(mythology)" title="Atlas (mythology)">Atlas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aura_(mythology)" title="Aura (mythology)">Aura</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byblis" title="Byblis">Byblis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calliste_(mythology)" title="Calliste (mythology)">Calliste</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castalia" title="Castalia">Castalia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chione_(daughter_of_Callirrhoe)" title="Chione (daughter of Callirrhoe)">Chione</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cleite" title="Cleite">Cleite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Comaetho_(lover_of_Cydnus)" title="Comaetho (lover of Cydnus)">Comaetho</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyane" title="Cyane">Cyane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirce" title="Dirce">Dirce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haemus" 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