Legacy
- Various kinds of kingfishers are named after the couple, in reference to the metamorphosis myth:
- The genus Ceyx (within the River kingfishers family) is named after him
- The kingfisher family Halcyonidae (Tree Kingfishers) is named after his wife, as is the genus Halcyon.
- The Belted Kingfisher's Latin species name (Megaceryle alcyon) also references her name.
- Their story features in The Book of the Duchess.
- Their story is the basis for the opera Alcyone by the French composer Marin Marais
- A collection of Canada's celebrated nature poet, Archibald Lampman, Alcyone, his final set of poetry published posthumously in 1899, highlights both Lampman's apocalyptic and utopian visions of the future.
- TS Eliot draws from this myth in The Dry Salvages: "And the ragged rock in the restless waters,/Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it;/On a halcyon day it is merely a monument,/In navigable weather it is always a seamark/To lay a course by: but in the sombre season/Or the sudden fury, is what it always was."
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