Cychreus

by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.

 
According to the myths Cychreus was the son of the god Poseidon and the nymph Salamis, the daughter of the river-god Asopus. Cychreus became a legendary king of the biggest island in the Saronic Gulf — Salamis — and he was worshiped there as a mysterious divine hero. In this mythological story the island was named after Cychreus’ mother, the nymph Salamis, but the place was also called “the Snake Island” in relation to the following myth about the king Cychreus. (Originally, the island Salamis took its name from the Phoenician emigrants coming there from Cyprus, for them this place was schalam, “peaceful.”)

Catreus

by Dr Alena Trckova-Flamee Ph.D.

 
Catreus was one of the sons of the King Minos of Crete and his wife Queen Pasiphae, and the brother of Acacallis, Androgeus, Ariadne, Glaucus and Phaedra. He is known mainly through his children: his daughters Aerope, Apemosyne, and Clymene (4), and his son Althaemenes, whom he all loved very much. But when an oracle predicted him that he would be killed by one of his children, he became suspicious and he ended the relation with them.