Methone (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Methone () was the name shared by four women:

Methone, one of the Alcyonides, daughters of the giant Alcyoneus. She was the sister of Alkippe, Anthe, Asteria, Drimo, Pallene and Phthonia (Phosthonia or Chthonia). When their father Alcyoneus was slain by Heracles, these girls threw themselves into the sea from Kanastraion, which is the peak of Pellene. They were then transformed into halcyons (kingfishers) by the goddess Amphitrite.Eustathius ad Iliad p. 776 with Pausanias as the authority; Suda s.v. Alcyon days (Ἀλκυονίδες ἡμέραι) as cited from Hegesander's Hypomnemata Methone, the nymph-consort of Pierus, king of Pieria, and by the latter, became the mother of Oeagrus, father of Orpheus.Of the Origin of Homer and Hesiod and their Contest, Fragment 1, 314 In some accounts rather, she was called the sister of Pierus.Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.933 Methone or Mothone (Μοθώνη), a bastard daughter of King Oeneus of Calydon by a concubine.Pausanias, 4.35.1 She was the eponymous heroine who gave her name to Methone in Messenia. Methone, wife of King Poeas of Meliboea and mother of Philoctetes.Eustathius ad Homer, p. 323 Otherwise, the latter's mother was called Demonassa.Hyginus, Fabulae 102 This Methone may be the same as the above character.

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