Polypheme (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Polypheme (Ancient Greek: Πολυφήμην) may refer to the following:

• Polypheme, daughter of Autolycus and the possible mother of Jason by Aeson, King of Iolcus.[1] She was also called Polymele[2] or Polymede;[3] otherwise the mother of the hero was either (1) Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus;[4] (2) Amphinome;[5] (3) Rhoeo, daughter of Staphylus;[6] (4) Theognete, daughter of Laodicus;[7] and lastly, (5) Arne or (6) Scarphe.[8]
• Polypheme, another form of the name Polyphemus, the Cyclops who was encountered by Odysseus in one his adventures to go back home at Ithaca.

Notes

1. Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.45 with Herodorus as authority
2. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 38; Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.979; Scholia ad Homer, Odyssey 12.69 with Hesiod as the authority
3. Apollodorus, 1.9.16; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 175, 872.
4. Apollonius Rhodius, 1.47, 233 & 259; Scholia ad ibid, 1.45 & ad Homer, Odyssey 12.69, both have Pherecydes as the authority; Valerius Flaccus, 1.297; Hyginus, Fabulae 3, 13 & 14
5. Diodorus Siculus, 4.50.2
6. Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.979
7. Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.45 with Andron on Epitome of Affinity as the source
8. Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 872

References

• Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd., 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Apollonius of Rhodes, Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica, translated by Robert Cooper Seaton, W. Heinemann, 1912. Internet Archive.
• Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, Volume II: Books 2.35-4.58, translated by C. H. Oldfather, Loeb Classical Library No. 303, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1935. ISBN 978-0-674-99334-1. Online version at Harvard University Press. Online version by Bill Thayer.
• Hyginus, Gaius Julius, Fabulae, in The Myths of Hyginus, edited and translated by Mary A. Grant, Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960. Online version at ToposText.
• Tzetzes, John, Lycophronis Alexandra. Vol. II: Scholia Continens, edited by Eduard Scheer, Berlin, Weidmann, 1881. Internet Archive.