Celaeno

 ( Amazons ) 

In Greek mythology, Celaeno (; Kelaino, lit. 'the dark one', also Celeno or Kelaino, sometimes Calaeno) was the name of several figures.

• Celaeno, one of the Pleiades. She was said to be mother of Lycus and Nycteus,Apollodorus, 3.10.1 of King Eurypylus (or Eurytus) of Cyrene, and of Lycaon, also by PoseidonScholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 4.1561
• Celaeno, one of the Harpies,Hyginus, Fabulae Preface & 14 whom Aeneas encountered at Strophades. She gave him prophecies of his coming journeys.Virgil, Aeneid 3.209-211 and 245-258, with the commentary by Servius
• Celaeno, one of the Danaïdes, the daughters of Danaus. Her mother was Crino. She married and killed Hyperbius, son of Aegyptus and Hephaestine.Apollodorus, 2.1.5 She was also believed to have had a son Celaenus by Poseidon.Strabo, 12.8.18
• Celaeno, a Phocian princess as the daughter of King Hyamus of Hyampolis, son of Lycorus. Her mother was Melanthea (Melantho), daughter of Deucalion. CelaenoPausanias, 10.6.3 or her sister MelainaScholia on Euripides, Orestes 1094 became the mother of Delphus by Apollo.
• Celaeno, daughter of Ergea by Poseidon. She was the mother of Lycus and Chimaereus by Prometheus.Tzetzes on Lycophron, 132
• Celaeno, an Amazons. She was killed by Heracles whilst he was undertaking the ninth labour.Diodorus Siculus, 4.16.3

• Celaeno, a star in the constellation of Taurus.

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.