Apollo also had a lyre-playing contest with Cinyras, his son, who committed suicide when he lost.

Pseudo-Apollodorus, ( Bibliotheke, 3. 182 ) considered Adonis to be the son of Cinyras, of Paphos on Cyprus, and Metharme.

Alternatively the late source Bibliotheke calls him the son of Cinyras and Metharme.

Stephanus of Byzantium informs that Cinyras ' mother was named Amathousa, and it was either from her or Amathous, a son of Heracles, that Amathous, the oldest city of Cyprus, received its name.

* Laodice, daughter of Cinyras and Metharme, wife of Elatus, mother of Stymphalus and Pereus

In the first he states that Cinyras arrived in Cyprus with a few followers and founded Paphos, and that he married Metharme, eventually becoming king of Cyprus through her family.

Cinyras had five children with Metharme: the two boys, Oxyporos and Adonis, and three daughters, Orsedice, Laogore, and Braisia.

In his Histories, Tacitus relates the account of divination rites at the famous Temple of Venus at Paphos ; according to traditional tales, this temple was founded by King Aerias, but others say Cinyras consecrated the temple, which was built right on the spot where the goddess had first stepped on the land after her birth from the sea.

The city's legendary founder was Cinyras, linked with the birth of Adonis, who called the city after his mother Amathous.

The city Cinyreia on Cyprus was believed to have taken its name from Cinyras.

In the earliest testimony for this character in ancient Greek literature ( the account of Homer ), Cinyras was a ruler on Cyprus who gave a corselet to Agamemnon as a guest-gift when he heard that the Greeks were planning to sail to Troy.

Eustathius in his commentary on this passage relates that Cinyras promised assistance to Agamemnon, but did not keep his word: having promised to send fifty ships, he actually sent only one, while the rest were sculpted from earth, with figures of men ( also made of earth ) imitating the crew.

They say that on Cyprus, Cinyras was revered as the creator of art and of musical instruments, such as the flute.

Cinyras ' relationship with a girl on his daughter's age was therefore not unnatural, but Myrrha's being in love with her own father was.

Literary critic Anthony W. Lee notes in his essay " Dryden's Cinyras and Myrrha " that this translation, along with several others, can be interpreted as a subtle comment on the political scene of the late seventeenth-century England.

Cinna's literary fame was established by his magnum opus Zmyrna, a mythological epic poem focused on the incestuous love of Smyrna ( or Myrrha ) for her father Cinyras, treated after the erudite and allusive manner of the Alexandrian poets.

In Cyprus, Adonis gradually superseded that of Cinyras.

He further married Eune, daughter of Cyprus or Cinyras, and had by her a daughter Asteria.

In Greek mythology, Cinyras ( in Greek, Κινύρας – Kinyras ) was a king of Cyprus.

Stephanus also mentions three otherwise unknown children of Cinyras: a daughter Cyprus, who had the island named after her, and two sons, Koureus and Marieus, eponyms of the towns Kourion and Marion respectively.

Pausanias mentions a daughter of Cinyras as the consort of Teucer, who is known to have received the kingdom of Cyprus from Belus for having assisted him in the invasion of the island.

The footnotes to this story also state that Cinyras is " Another mythical king of Cyprus.

According to Ovid, Myrrha was the daughter of King Cinyras and Queen Cenchreis of Cyprus.

The name Cinyras does not appear again until he is mentioned by Pindar as " beloved of Apollo ," and the priest of Aphrodite.

Clement of Alexandria in his Protrepticus talks about the " Cyprian Islander Cinyras, who dared to bring forth from night to the light of day the lewd orgies of Aphrodite in his eagerness to deify a strumpet of his own country.

She was the wife of Cinyras, and the mother of Adonis, beloved of Aphrodite, although Myrrha, daughter of Cinyras, is more commonly named as the mother of Adonis.

A tragedy entitled Cinyras is mentioned, wherein the main character, Cinyras, is to be slain along with his daughter Myrrha, and " a great deal of fictitious blood was shed ".

Incest appears in the commonly accepted version of the birth of Adonis, when his mother, Myrrha has sex with her father Cinyras during a festival, disguised as a prostitute.

Myrrha and Cinyras.

He was cursed by Agamemnon and subsequently punished by Apollo, who beat him in a musical contest ( similar to that between Apollo and Marsyas, to see who was a better musician with a lyre ) and killed him, whereupon Cinyras ' fifty daughters threw themselves into the sea and were changed into sea birds.

Pindar mentions Cinyras as being fabulously rich in Nemean Ode 8, line 18.

Later, in Greek and Roman literature and in the Christian fathers such as Clement of Alexandria, the story of Cinyras is elaborated.

Cinyras was reported to have fathered a number of children, including Mygdalion ( who led his only real ship to Troy ), Adonis and Myrrha.

According to Ovid, Cinyras ' daughter Myrrha, impelled by an unnatural lust for her own father ( in retribution for her mother Cenchreis ' hybris ), slept with him, became pregnant, and asked the gods to change her into something other than human ; she became a tree from whose bark myrrh drips.

Cinyras was said to have committed suicide over the matter.

Other authors equate Cinyras and Myrrha with king Theias of Assyria and his daughter Smyrna, and relate the same story of them.

Hyginus uses the name Cinyras for the father, but Smyrna for the daughter.

According to the Bibliotheca, Cinyras was a descendant of Eos and Cephalus.

Adrian Quiney wrote to his son Richard on October 29 and again perhaps the next day, since the bearer of the letter, the bailiff, was expected to reach London on November 1.

Arnulf was, according to most sources, the illegitimate son of Carloman, King of Bavaria, and his concubine Liutswind, perhaps of Carantanian origin, and possibly the sister of Ernst, Count of the Bavarian Nordgau Margraviate in the area of the Upper Palatinate, or perhaps the burgrave of Passau, as some sources say.

He was the son of Sarah Hunt Mills and Benjamin Peirce, himself a professor of astronomy and mathematics at Harvard University and perhaps the first serious research mathematician in America.

Constantín's family dominated Fortriu after 789 and perhaps, if Constantín was a kinsman of Óengus I of the Picts ( Óengus son of Fergus ), from around 730.

The northern part of Northumbria, and perhaps the whole kingdom, had probably been ruled by Ealdred son of Eadulf since 913.

In 1867, his oldest son, Malcolm, shot himself, perhaps accidentally.

His role as lover was perhaps to explain why he was the only son of Neleus to be spared by the hero.

He is known by the epithets Lámhfhada ( pronounced /' la: wad ̪ ˠə /, meaning " long arm " or " long hand "), for his skill with a spear or sling, Ildánach (" skilled in many arts "), Samhildánach (" Equally skilled in many arts "), Lonnbeimnech (" fierce striker " or perhaps " sword-shouter ") and Macnia (" boy hero "), and by the matronymic mac Ethlenn or mac Ethnenn (" son of Ethliu or Ethniu ").

Gold was perhaps not the only metallic source of Midas ' riches: " King Midas, a Phrygian, son of Cybele, first discovered black and white lead ".

It has also been suggested that Máel Coluim may have been a son of Owen the Bald, British king of Strathclyde perhaps by a daughter of Máel Coluim II, King of Scotland.

This practice may stem from the influence of Gerald Gardner who wrote ( ostensibly quoting a witch, but perhaps in his own words ): The witches tell me ' The law always has been that power must be passed from man to woman or from woman to man, the only exception being when a mother initiates her daughter or a father his son, because they are part of themselves ' ( the reason is that great love is apt to occur between people who go through the rites together.

Stephen was a Roman by birth, the son of Theodemundus, and perhaps a member of the Gabrielli family.

1200 or 1220s, perhaps father and son of the same name )

In 1160 she gave her assent to a grant made by her son Amalric to the Holy Sepulchre, perhaps on the occasion of the birth of her granddaughter Sibylla to Agnes and Amalric.

Born in Paris, the son of a lace designer Nicolas Boucher, François Boucher was perhaps the most celebrated decorative artist of the 18th century, with most of his work reflecting the Rococo style.

1100 ( perhaps 1097 ) as Ubaldo, son of Orlando.

At first, she failed to notice the nanny's abuse of the young Princes Edward and Albert, and her youngest son, Prince John, was housed in a private farm on the Sandringham Estate, in the care of Mrs. Bill, perhaps to hide his epilepsy from the public.

The it seems unknown to Pliny the Elder, so Valens ' mother was probably not his sister Plinia ; perhaps Valens was Lutulla's son from an earlier relationship.

When he became unpopular later in life, scurrilous rumours and lampoons circulated that he was actually the son of a Ghent butcher, perhaps because Edward III was not present at the birth.

Mieszko I's oldest son, Bolesław I the Brave, is not mentioned, perhaps because he already received his inheritance ( probably Lesser Poland, who included Kraków and some other cities ).

In La Bohème ( 1965 ), perhaps the best-known song by popular singer-songwriter Charles Aznavour, a painter recalls his youthful years in a Montmartre that has ceased to exist: Je ne reconnais plus / Ni les murs, ni les rues / Qui ont vu ma jeunesse / En haut d ' un escalier / Je cherche l ' atelier / Dont plus rien ne subsiste / Dans son nouveau décor / Montmartre semble triste / Et les lilas sont morts (' I no longer recognize / Neither the walls nor the streets / That had seen my youth / At the top of a staircase / I look for a studio-apartment / Of which nothing survives / In its new décor / Montmartre seems sad / And the lilacs died ').

He was born on Sardinia, the son of Fortunatus ; Jeffrey Richards notes that he was born a pagan, and " perhaps the rankest outsider " of all the Ostrogothic Popes, most of whom were members of aristocratic families.

Bartholomew (, transliterated " Bartholomaios ") comes from the Aramaic bar-Tôlmay ( תולמי ‎‎‎‎‎- בר ‎‎), meaning son of Tolmay or son of the furrows ( perhaps a ploughman ).