Tags: Mythological Figure.
Halcyon (Ancient Greek: Ἀλκυών) is a short dialogue with the distinction of being attributed in the manuscripts to both Plato and Lucian although the work is not by either writer. Favorinus writing in the early 2nd century attributes it to a certain Leon.In the dialogue Socrates relates to Chaerephon the ancient myth of the Halcyon a woman transformed into a bird forever searching the seas in lament.