Hedyle

According to Athenaeus, Hedyle was the daughter of an Attic poet, Moschine, who is otherwise unknown, and the mother of Hedylus, another poet. Probably Athenian, like her mother. The only surviving fragment of Hedyle's poetry consists of two and a half couplets from her elegiac poem Scylla, quoted by Athenaeus. The poem is about the myth of Scylla, a human woman who was courted by the merman Glaucus. Version of the myth may have portrayed Glaucus committing suicide after being rejected by Scylla. In the version of the story told by Ovid in his Metamorphoses, Scylla was turned into a sea-monster by Circe, who was jealous of Glaucus' love for her. Dunstan Lowe argues that Hedyle's version of the myth of Scylla was the inspiration for Ovid's version of the myth. Josephine Balmer argues that Hedyle's choice of subject is part of a tradition of Greek women poets reinterpreting the dangerous women in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey in a more sympathetic light, comparing it to the sympathetic portrayal of Helen of Troy in Sappho 16.

Hedyle is recorded with the occupation epigrammatist. Recorded with the occupation elegist. Recorded with the occupation writer. Classed in the genre iambic poetry. Recorded with the occupation poet. Recorded as poet, writer, epigrammatist and elegist. Identity and origins. The authorities additionally record the headings Hedyle Epigrammatica, Hedyla and Edile. Her recorded language was Ancient Greek. She was the child of Moschine. One child is recorded: Hedylus.