Alcyone (/ælˈsaɪ.əniː/;Ancient Greek:Ἀλκυόνη,romanized: Alkyóne), inGreek mythology, was the name of one of thePleiades, daughters ofAtlas andPleione or, more rarely,Aethra.^[1] She attracted the attention of the godPoseidon and bore him several children, variously named in the sources:Hyrieus,Hyperenor, andAethusa;^[2]Hyperes andAnthas;^[3] andEpopeus.^[4][5] By a mortal,Anthedon, Alcyone became the mother of the fishermanGlaucus, who was later transformed into a marine god.^[6]

Alkyóne comes from alkyón (ἀλκυών), which refers to a sea-bird with a mournful song^[7] or to akingfisher bird in particular.^[8] The meaning(s) of the words is uncertain becausealkyón is considered to be of pre-Greek, non-Indo-European origin.^[9] However,folk etymology related them to theháls (ἅλς, "brine, sea, salt") andkyéo (κυέω, "I conceive"). Alkyóne originally is written with asmooth breathing mark, but this false origin beginning with arough breathing mark (transliterated as the letter H) led to the common misspellingshalkyón (ἁλκυών) andHalkyóne (Ἁλκυόνη),^[10] and thus the name of one of the kingfisher birdgenus' in EnglishHalcyon. It is also speculated that Alkyóne is derived fromalké (ἀλκή, "prowess, battle, guard") andonéo (ὀνέω, fromὀνίνεμι,onínemi,^[11] "to help, to please").^[12]

• Athenaeus of Naucratis.The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis.Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hyginus,Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• M. Grant and J. Hazel,Who's Who in Greek Mythology, David McKay and Co Inc, 1979
• Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
• Publius Ovidius Naso,The Epistles of Ovid. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.

• Pleiades (Greek mythology)
• Women of Poseidon
• Mythological Arcadians
• Arcadian mythology
• Boeotian mythology

• CS1: unfit URL
• CS1 errors: ISBN date
• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text