Cynthus
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Mount Cynthus () is located on the isle of Delos, part of the Greek Cyclades.
Key facts
- Mountain.photo
- Image:Mount Cynthus, Delos.jpg
- Mountain.photo_caption
- View of Mount Cynthus
- Mountain.image_size
- 250px
- Mountain.map
- Greece
- Mountain.location
- Location of Mount Cynthus in Greece
- Mountain.label_position
- right
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 113
- Mountain.native_name
- (Kýnthos)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Greece
- Located in
- Mykonos Municipality
- Elevation
- 113
- Image
- Mount Cynthus, Delos.jpg
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- Commons category
- Mount Kynthos in Delos
- topographic prominence
- 113
- located in/on physical feature
- Delos
- described by source
- Pauly–Wissowa
- native label
- Κύνθος
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Mythology
- Description
- References
- External links
Mount Cynthus () is located on the isle of Delos, part of the Greek Cyclades.
==Mythology== In Greek mythology, Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis on this island, having been shunned by Zeus' wife Hera who was extremely jealous of his liaison with Leto. They respectively carry the epithets of Cynthius and Cynthia—the latter eventually becoming a female given name, still current in English-speaking and other Western countries. The byname "Cynthia" was also applied to Selene, the moon goddess, due to her close association with Artemis, as well as the goddess Diana, Artemis's Roman counterpart.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cynthus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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