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Myrrha and Cinyras. Engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses. In Greek mythology, Cinyras (/ ˈ s ɪ n ɪ r ə s /; [1] Ancient Greek: Κινύρας – Kinyras) was a famous hero and king of Cyprus.
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.
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 ...
"Myrrha" was a finalist for the 1963 Hugo Award for Short Fiction. [1] At Galactic Journey, Gideon Marcus found it to be "dreamy, humorless, (and) unpleasant", while conceding that he "might have liked it more had (he) understood it." [2] Piers Anthony considered it "an utterly savage story of revenge for a personal slight." [3]
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.
Sculptor from Cyptrus, father of Paphos, grandfather of Cinyras, and great-grandfather of Myrrha and Adonis. A bachelor, Pygmalion sculpts a beautiful woman out of ivory. He falls in love with this statue and prays to Venus to bring it to life. She grants his prayer, and the statue, Galatea, has a daughter with him, Paphos. X: 243-296 [208] Pyramus
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).
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