Cydippe

The name Cydippe (Κυδίππη) is attributed to four individuals in Greek mythology.

Herodotus, the original source for this story, does not state the name of the mother of Cleobis and Biton. The first mention of their mother's actual name can be found in Plutarch, Frag. 133 (= Stobaeus 4.52.43) "ἔτι δὲ Κλέοβις καὶ Βίτων, Κυδίππης τῆς μητρὸς αὐτῶν ..." Plutarch (first century CE) is the earliest source for her name that is now available to us. Surely much intervening literature regarding Cydippe the priestess of Hera has been lost, since Plutarch was writing about 300 years after Herodotus first told the story.

References

  1. Herodotus, Histories, 1. 31
  2. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 57. 7
  3. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, 27
  4. Virgil, Georgics, 4. 339
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae, Preface
  6. Callimachus, Cydippe
  7. Ovid, Heroides 20-21


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