Galaxy/The codex of Calybe

A nymph whom Apollodorus names as the mother of Bucolion, illegitimate eldest son of king Laomedon — the prose genealogy beside Homer's shepherd episode, where the only named fountain-nymph is Abarbarea, mother of Aesepus and Pedasus.1

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In Apollodorus' roll of Laomedon's children, the king begat Tithonus, Lampus, Clytius, Hicetaon, and Podarces, and the daughters Hesione, Cilla, and Astyoche, besides a son Bucolion by a nymph Calybe. No other ancient author in the atlas' seven lenses names her; Homer knows Bucolion as Laomedon's eldest, born of an unwed mother, and names a different fountain-nymph, Abarbarea, as the mother of Bucolion's twin sons.2

the spine ignites as you read · hover a bond on the card — every mention of them lights in the story

BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Calybe — art, artifacts and echoes.

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