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From this incestuous union sprang the child Adonis. Cinyras was said to have committed suicide over the matter. [25] Other authors equate Cinyras and Myrrha with king Theias of Assyria and his daughter Smyrna, and relate the same story of them. [26] Hyginus uses the name Cinyras for the father, but Smyrna for the daughter. [27]
Myrrha's nurse told King Cinyras of a girl deeply in love with him, giving a false name. The affair lasted several nights in complete darkness to conceal Myrrha's identity, [e] until Cinyras wanted to know the identity of his paramour. Upon bringing in a lamp, and seeing his daughter, the king attempted to kill her on the spot, but Myrrha escaped.
Libythea labdaca laius Trimen, 1879 (= Libythea labdaca cinyras Trimen, 1866; = Libythea labdaca lepitoides Moore, 1901) Libythea ancoata Grose-Smith, 1891; Libythea tsiandava Grose-Smith, 1891; Libythea myrrha Godart, 1819. Libythea myrrha myrrha Godart, 1819; Libythea myrrha borneensis Fruhstorfer, 1914; Libythea myrrha carma Fruhstorfer, 1914
Cinyras, a King: Father to Myrrha who eventually sleeps with her after being tricked by the Nursemaid while being drunk and blindfolded. Myrrha: Daughter of King Cinyras who denied Aphrodite so many times that Myrrha was seized with a passion for her father. She eventually has three sexual encounters with her father, the third of which he ...
Cinyras: Son of Pygmalion's daughter Paphos, husband of Cenchreis, father of Myrrha and Adonis, and king of Cyprus. He was deceived and seduced by Myrrha from which the result was Adonis. X: 298-472 [65] Cipus: Roman legendary commander. XV: 565-621 [66] Circe: Daughter of Sol and Perse. Circe was a goddess skilled in magic.
Cinna's literary fame was established by his magnum opus "Zmyrna", a mythological epic poem focused on the incestuous love of Smyrna (or Myrrha) for her father Cinyras, treated after the erudite and allusive manner of the Alexandrian poets. [2] He was a friend of Catullus (poem 10, 29–30: meus sodalis / Cinna est Gaius).
According to the most common versions, Adonis was the son of Cinyras or Theias by his own daughter Myrrha or Smyrna, who tricked her father into bedding her in secret.She then ran away once discovered, and transformed into a myrrh tree, causing her infant son, Adonis to be born some months later from the tree trunk.
Cinyras, mythological son of Apollo and father of Adonis; Kinnaru, an Ugaritic god who was a deification of the lyre, or some other string instruments; Other names APOP Kinyras Peyias FC, a Cypriot football club; KINYRAS, a submarine telecommunications cable system in Cyprus