InGreek mythology,Mycene (Ancient Greek:Μυκήνη,romanized: Mykene), was a daughter ofInachus, king ofArgos and wife ofArestor.^[1] Mycene was said to be the eponym ofMycenae.^[2]

Homer'sOdyssey, calling her "Mycene of the fair crown" mentions her in passing, along withTyro andAlcmene, as "women of old ... fair-tressed Achaean women".^[3]Pausanias, citing theMegalai Ehoiai, says that Mycene was the daughter of Inachus and the wife of Arestor, without naming the mother.^[4] However, a scholiast on Homer'sOdyssey says that Mycene was the daughter of Inachus and theOceanid nymphMelia, and that, according to theEpic Cycle, Mycene and Arestor were the parents ofArgus Panoptes.^[5] As the daughter of Inachus, she would have been therefore the sister ofPhoroneus, who, according to Argive tradition, was the first man, or first inhabitant of Argos, who lived during the time of theGreat Flood, associated withDeucalion.^[6]

According to Pausanias—among several accounts of how the cityMycenae got its name—one was that Mycene gave "her name to the city".^[7]

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