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Corcyra (mythology)

Daughter of the Asopos river and the nymph Metope

Summary

Daughter of the Asopos river and the nymph Metope

Field	Value
image	Athens Acropolis Museum Marble Relief (28337085892).jpg
caption	Corcyra (or Hera) on the relief of the Corcyra-Athens alliance, 375 BC, Acropolis Museum
type	Greek
name	Corcyra
abode	Corfu
father	Asopus
mother	Metope
children	Phaeax
consort	Poseidon

In Greek mythology and religion, Corcyra () or Korkyra (; ) is the naiad daughter of the river-god Asopos and the nymph Metope, herself the daughter of the river-god Ladon. She is the personification and tutelary goddess of the ancient Greek city and island of Korkyra, now better known as Corfu.

Family

Korykra was the sister of Pelasgus (Pelagon), Ismenus, Chalcis, Cleone, Salamis, Sinope, Aegina, Peirene, Thebe, Tanagra, Thespia, Asopis, Ornea, Harpina, Antiope, Nemea and Plataea (Oeroe).

Mythology

According to myth, Poseidon fell in love with the beautiful nymph Korkyra, kidnapped her and brought her to a hitherto unnamed island (Scheria) and offered her name to the place: Korkyra or the now-modern Kerkyra (known in English as Corfu, a name that is unrelated by origin).

"Next after them they came to Corcyra, where Poseidon settled the daughter of Asopus, fair-haired Corcyra, far from the land of Phlious, whence he had carried her off through love; and sailors beholding it from the sea, all black with its sombre woods, call it Corcyra the Black."

Together they had a child Phaeax after whom the inhabitants of the island, Phaiakes, were named; their name was later transliterated in Latinate orthography to Phaeacians.

Notes

References

Apollodorus, The Library 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. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica translated by Robert Cooper Seaton (1853-1915), R. C. Loeb Classical Library Volume 001. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1912. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica. George W. Mooney. London. Longmans, Green. 1912. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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. 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. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

References

[[Bacchylides]], fr. 9; [[Corinna]], fr. 654 (trans. Campbell); [[Apollonius of Rhodes. Apollonius Rhodius]], 4.568; [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], 2.5.2 & 5.22.6
[[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#72.1 4.72.1]
[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus). Apollodorus]], 3.12.6
Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#72.1 4.72.1]
Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#73.1 4.73.1]; Pausanias, 5.22.6
Pausanias, 2.6.1 & 2.6.4
Pausanias, 2.15.3 & 5.22.6
Pausanias, 9.1.1–2 & 9.3.1
Pausanias, 9.4.4
Pausanias, 2.5.2
Apollonius of Rhodes, 4.566–571
Bacchylides, fr. 9; Corinna, fr. 654 (trans. Campbell); Diodorus Siculus, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4D*.html#72.3 4.72.3]; Pausanias, 5.22.6

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