Κανακη
One of the daughters of Aeolus and Aenarete (Table 8). Ovid, undoubtedly following Euripides, tells that she gave birth to a son fathered by her brother Macareus. Her nurse was preparing to remove the child from the palace pretending that she was going out merely to offer a sacrifice, but the child cried out and disclosed its presence to Aeolus. He threw the child to the dogs and sent a sword to his daughter, ordering her to kill herself. Canace also had several children by Poseidon (Table 10).
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Table of Sources
- Apollod. Bibl. 1, 7, 3
- Diod. Sic. 5, 61
- Callim. Hymn 6, 99
- Hyg. Fab. 238; 242f
- Ovid, Her. 11
- Stobaeus, Flor. 64, 35 M = 4, 20, 72, p. 472f. W-H
- Serv. on Virgil, Aen. 1, 75
- schol. on Aristophanes, Clouds 1371; Frogs 849
- Plutarch, Parallel. 28, 312c
- Euripides, Aeolus (lost tragedy, Nauck TGF, edn 2, pp. 365ff.)