Celaeno

In Greek mythology, Celaeno (/sɪˈliːnoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Κελαινώ Kelaino, lit. 'the dark one', also Celeno or Kelaino, sometimes [misspelled] Calaeno) referred to several different figures.

• Celaeno, one of the Harpies,[1] whom Aeneas encountered at Strophades. She gave him prophecies of his coming journeys.[2]
• Celaeno, one of the Pleiades. She was said to be mother of Lycus and Nycteus by Poseidon;[3] of Eurypylus (or Eurytus), King of Cyrene, and Lycaon, also by Poseidon;[4] and of Lycus and Chimaereus by Prometheus.[5]
• Celaeno, one of the Danaïdes, the daughters of Danaus. Her mother was Crino. She married and killed Hyperbius, son of Aegyptus and Hephaestine.[6] She was also believed to have had a son Celaenus by Poseidon.[7]
• Celaeno, an Amazon. She was killed by Heracles whilst he was undertaking the ninth labour.[8]
• Celaeno, daughter of Hyamus and granddaughter of Lycorus. She was the mother of Delphus by Apollo.[9]
• Celaeno, daughter of Ergea by Poseidon.[10]

In popular culture

• The harpy Celaeno appears as a captive of a traveling witch's Midnight Carnival, in the Peter S. Beagle classic fantasy novel The Last Unicorn and the 1982 film based on the book.
• Captain Celaeno is the name of the leader of a pirate crew of parrot-like creatures who help the ponies in My Little Pony: The Movie.
• Celaena Sardothien, the main character of the Throne of Glass series. Sarah J Maas, the author has cited Celaeno as her inspiration for the name

Notes

1. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface & 14
2. Virgil, Aeneid 3.209-211, with the commentary by Servius
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.10.1
4. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4. 1561
5. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 132
6. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.1.5
7. Strabo, Geographica 12.8.18
8. Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica 4.16.3
9. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.6.3
10. Murray, John (1833). A Classical Manual, being a Mythological, Historical and Geographical Commentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil with a Copious Index. Albemarle Street, London. p. 78.

References

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius 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.
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• 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.
• Pseudo-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.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.