Mythical founder of the city of Paphos in Greek mythology
Myrrha and Cinyras. Engraving by Virgil Solis for Ovid's Metamorphoses
In Greek mythology, Cinyras (/ˈsɪnɪrəs/;[1] Ancient Greek: Κινύρας – Kinyras) was a famous hero and king of Cyprus. Accounts vary significantly as to his genealogy and provide a variety of stories concerning him; in many sources he is associated with the cult of Aphrodite on Cyprus, and Adonis, a consort of Aphrodite, is mentioned as his son. Some scholars have proposed a connection with the minor Ugaritic deity Kinnaru, the god of the lyre.[2][3] The city Cinyreia on Cyprus was believed to have taken its name from Cinyras.[4] According to Strabo, he had previously ruled in the city of Byblos in Phoenicia.[5]
^Zimmerman, J. E. (1964). Dictionary of Classical Mythology. New York: Harper & Row. p. 63.
^Brown, John Pairman (1965). "Kothar, Kinyras, and Kythereia". Journal of Semitic Studies. 10 (2): 197–219. doi:10.1093/jss/10.2.197.
^Albright, William Foxwell (1968). Yahweh and the Gods and Canaan. London: School of Oriental and African Studies. pp. 136, 280–84.
^Nonnus, Dionysiaca 13.451; Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 5.35.1
^"Map 1: The ancient world". The Geography of Strabo. Translated by Roller, Duane W. 2014. p. xvi. doi:10.1017/9781139814706.002. ISBN 9781139814706.
have taken its name from Cinyras. According to Strabo, he had previously ruled in the city of Byblos in Phoenicia. The name Cinyras does not appear again...
Cinyra may refer to: Kinnor (also called a "cinyra"), an instrument of ancient Israel Cinyra (beetle), a genus of beetle This disambiguation page lists...
age. Cinyras agreed, and the nurse was quick to bring Myrrha to him. Myrrha left her father's room impregnated. After several couplings, Cinyras discovered...
Libythea cinyras Trimen 1866. In: The Tree of Life Web Project. Version 3 December 2007 (under construction). Retrieved 31 October 2009. Libythea cinyras holotype...
her father, Cinyras. Myrrha falls in love with her father and tricks him into sexual intercourse. After discovering her identity, Cinyras draws his sword...
Roman Hyginus, Fabula 142, Cinyras was a son of Paphus, thus legitimate in the patrilineal manner, but Bibliotheke makes Cinyras an interloper, arriving...
Amerila cinyra is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Muller in 1980. It is found in Africa. Muller, S., 1980): Some Afrotropical moths...
Macrocneme cinyras is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by William Schaus in 1889. It is found in Mexico. Savela, Markku (ed.). "Macrocneme...
her wanderings to as far as Hyperborea. Cinyras was a ruler of Cyprus, who was a friend of Agamemnon. Cinyras promised to assist Agamemnon in the Trojan...
was cursed by Aphrodite with insatiable lust for her own father, King Cinyras of Cyprus, after Myrrha's mother bragged that her daughter was more beautiful...
sometimes assumed that a mythical king of Cyprus mentioned in the Iliad, Cinyras, was derived from him. The Ugaritic word knr, as of 1999 attested six times...
the birth of Adonis, when his mother, Myrrha, has sex with her father, Cinyras, during a festival, disguised as a prostitute. In ancient Greece, Spartan...
mythology, being the birthplace of Aphrodite and Adonis, and home to King Cinyras, Teucer and Pygmalion. Literary evidence suggests an early Phoenician presence...
turning Antigone of Troy into a stork for competing with her, and finally Cinyras' daughter being petrified. Those four tales surrounded the central one...
Olbia Bithynia mother of Astacus by Poseidon Paphia possibly the mother of Cinyras by Eurymedon Pareia Paros mother of four sons by Minos Polydora one of...
extinct butterflies, their former ranges, and dates of extinction. Libythea cinyras (Mauritius, 1866) Mbashe River buff, Deloneura immaculata (South Africa)...
Pharnace, daughter of King Megassares of Hyria, and had by her a son, Cinyras. The latter being the father of the famous Adonis by Metharme. Apollodorus...
Arcadian prince as the son of King Elatus and Laodice, daughter of King Cinyras. He had four brothers namely, Stymphalus, Aepytus, Ischys and Cyllen. Pereus...
(4:18–22). In Ancient Greek Mythology, Myrrha fell in love with her father Cinyras and tricked him into having sexual intercourse with her ("climb[ed] into...
Cepheus, a king of Tegea and an Argonaut Charnabon, a king of the Getae Cinyras, a king of Cyprus and father of Adonis Codrus, a king of Athens Corinthus...
which he named after his home state. He further married Eune, daughter of Cinyras, king of Cyprus, and had by her a daughter Asteria. The name Teucer is...
Global Information