Cydippe (Rhodes)

Cydippe was the daughter the nymph Hegetoria and Ochimus, king of Rhodes and one of the legendary Heliadae (the seven sons of the sun-god Helios by the sea nymph Rhodos). In some authors she was also called Lysippe. == Mythology ==

The princess Cydippe was engaged by her father to a man named Ocridion and was about to marry him. But secretly from the rest of the Rhodians, her paternal uncle Cercaphus had fallen in love with her and deviced a plan to be with her. When time arrived for the wedding, the herald came to fetch Cydippe, but instead of delivering her to her rightful husband-to-be Ocridion, he took her to Cercaphus as agreed; this was the reason why heralds where not allowed into the shrine of Ocridion afterwards. each of which founded a Rhodian city they named after themselves (Camirus, Ialysus and Lindos respectively). == Background ==

In antiquity Achaia, the primeval Rhodian city that was founded by Cercaphus and Ochimus, was also called Kyrba or Kyrbe. The Kyrb- root also appears in placenames and people in Crete. According to Diodorus Siculus, a great deluge struck Rhodes, and thus Cyrbe was buried beneath the flood and laid waste. == See also ==