Talk:Cilla (mythology)

Two characters or one?

According to the article there were two Trojan women, contemporaries of Priam and Thymoites, both named Cilla. I have the impression that they are the same mythological character, presented differently through two mythological traditions that differ in some details.

This is what I think the stories of the two traditions have in common:

• Cilla is married to Thymoites;
• Cilla bears a son, Munippos, on the same say that Hecuba bears Paris;
• Priam kills Munippos in a tragic misinterpretation of an oracle's prediction.

And here is how they differ:

1. In one tradition, Thymoites is a brother of Priam and so Cilla is Priam's sister-in-law (actually in two ways: also through being a sister of Priam's wife Hecuba).
2. In a second tradition, Cilla is a sister of Priam (and, like Priam, a child of Laomedon), and so Thymoites is Priam's brother-in-law

 --Lambiam 18:52, 19 March 2014 (UTC)