on the more known myth of the origins of the kingfisher, starring Alcyone and Ceyx. Alkyóne comes from alkyón (ἀλκυών), which refers to a sea-bird with...

derives its name from the Greek myth of Alcyone and Ceyx. The type species is the black-backed dwarf kingfisher (Ceyx erithaca). A molecular phylogenetic...

libretto, by Antoine Houdar de la Motte, is based on the Greek myth of Alcyone and Ceyx as recounted by Ovid in his Metamorphoses. The opera was first performed...

mythology, one of the Pleiades named Alcyone (Alcedo in Latin) married Ceyx who was killed in a shipwreck. Alcyone drowned herself in grief and the gods...

Ceyx instructs Alcyone to bury him and to cease her sorrow, and when Alcyone opens her eyes Ceyx has gone. The poet stops relaying the story of Ceyx and...

seabird that was drowned at sea and then found washed ashore by his wife Alcyone, after which both were metamorphosed into kingfishers. The specific epithet...

initially identified him with the ill-fated groom of the similarly ill-fated Alcyone: they were turned into birds for the hubris they showed in referring to...

destruction of Troy, Peleus and Thetis, Daedalion, the cattle of Peleus, Ceyx and Alcyone, Aesacus. Book XII – The expedition against Troy, Achilles and Cycnus...

Tantalus Pyrrhus Antoninus Liberalis, 19 Celoria 1992, pp. 20, 224. Jacobs et al. 1904, p. 389. Smith, s.v. Laius 2 Antoninus Liberalis, The Metamorphoses...

Pistyll Rhaeadr, Aber Falls Solitude (or Landskip with Hermits) Other Ceyx and Alcyone (1768) Francis Ayscough, Dean of Bristol and tutor to King George III...