 Other authors equate Cinyras and Myrrha with king Theias of Assyria and his daughter Smyrna, and relate the same story of them.Hyginus uses the name Cinyras for the father, but Smyrna for the daughter.Clement of Alexandria in his "Protrepticus" talks about the "Cyprian Islander Cinyras, who dared to bring forth from night to the light of day the lewd orgies of Aphrodite in his eagerness to deify a strumpet of his own country."