Candybus

In Greek mythology, Candybus (Ancient Greek: Κάνδυβος) was a Phthian prince. Candybus was the son of the King Deucalion^[1] and probably Pyrrha, daughter of the Titan Epimetheus and Pandora. He was the possible brother of Hellen,^[2] Amphictyon,^[3] Pandora II,^[4][5] Protogeneia,^[6] Thyia^[7] and Melantho.^[8]

Stephanus of Byzantium reports a mythic tradition that the town of Kandyba in Lycia was named after Candybus.^[1]

Notes

1. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Kandyba (Κάνδυβα)
2. Apollodorus, 1.7.2
3. Apollodorus, 1.7.2 & 3.14.6
4. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 2 (Most, 2007) as cited in Ioan Lydus, De Mensibus 1.13 (p. 7.25 Wünsch)
5. Most, Glenn W. (2007). Hesioi: The Shield, Catalogue of Women and Other Fragments. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard University Press. pp. 42–45. ISBN 978-0-674-99623-6.
6. Apollodorus, 1.7.2
7. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 3 as cited in Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Thematibus, 2 (p. 86 sq. Pertusi)
8. Tzetzes on Lycophron, 208

References

• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.