Candybus
# Candybus

In Greek mythology, Candybus (Ancient Greek: Κάνδυβος) was a Phthian prince. Candybus was the son of the King Deucalion and Pyrrha, daughter of the Titan Epimetheus and Pandora. He was the possible brother of Hellen, Amphictyon, Pandora II, Protogeneia, Thyia and Melantho.

The town of Candyba in Lycia was believed to have received its name from Candybus.

## Note

* ↑ Apollodorus, 1.7.2
* ↑ Apollodorus, 1.7.2 & 3.14.6
* ↑ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 2 (Most, 2007) as cited in Ioan Lydus, De Mensibus 1.13 (p. 7.25 Wünsch)
* ↑ Most, Glenn W. (2007). Hesioi: The Shield, Catalogue of Women and Other Fragments. Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Harvard University Press. pp. 42–45. ISBN 978-0-674-99623-6.
* ↑ Apollodorus, 1.7.2
* ↑ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 3 as cited in Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Thematibus, 2 (p. 86 sq. Pertusi)
* ↑ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 208
* ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Κάνδυβα
