Keik ( dr. Greek. Κήϋξ ) is a character in ancient Greek mythology [2] .
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Son of Eosphorus [3] (or Hesperus and Filonides [4] ).
It is called the son of Aeolus [5] .
The husband of Alkion [6] .
He called his wife a Hero, and she called her husband Zeus. For this, Zeus turned him into a seagull [7] , and her into a kingfisher [8] .
According to another story, Keik went to Apollo in Clar, died in a shipwreck. [9] His wife threw herself into the sea, and they both became kingfishers [10] .
Notes
- ↑ Lubker F. Ceyx // The Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities according to Lubker / ed. F.F. Zelinsky , L.A. Georgievsky , M.S. Kutorg , etc. - St. Petersburg. : Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy , 1885. - P. 275.
- ↑ Myths of the peoples of the world. M., 1991-92. In 2 t. T. 1. P.633, Lubker F. The Real Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. M., 2001. In 3 vol. T. 1. S.318
- ↑ Pseudo-Plato. Alkion 1
- ↑ Gigin. Myths 65
- ↑ Clement. Protreptic 54, 1
- ↑ Hesiod. The list of women, fr. 16 M.-U.
- ↑ See Virgil. Georgics I 398 (mention of gulls) and comm. Philargiria
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Mythological library I 7, 4
- ↑ Ovid. Metamorphoses XI 410-582
- ↑ Gigin. Myths 65; The First Vatican Mythographer I 9