[1] According to Athenaeus, Hedyle was the daughter of an Attic poetess, Moschine, who is otherwise unknown, and the mother of Hedylus, another poet.
[1] The only surviving fragment of Hedyle's poetry consists of two and a half couplets from her elegiac poem Scylla, quoted by Athenaeus.
[2] Hedyle's version of the myth may have portrayed Glaucus committing suicide after being rejected by Scylla.
[1] 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.
[4] 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.