Hedyle

Hedyle (, Hḗdylē; fl. 4th century BC) was an ancient Greek poet. She is known only through a mention in Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae. According to Athenaeus, Hedyle was the daughter of an Attic poet, Moschine, who is otherwise unknown, and the mother of Hedylus, another poet. Hedyle's version of the myth may have portrayed Glaucus committing suicide after being rejected by Scylla. 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.