Chione (Greek myth)
In Greek mythology, Chione or Khionê (Ancient Greek: Χιονη from χιών – chiōn, "snow") may refer to the following women:
- Chione, daughter of Boreas and mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon.[1]
- Chione, daughter of Daedalion, and mother of Philammon and Autolycus by Apollo and Hermes respectively.[2] She may be the same with Philonis[3] and Leuconoe.[4]
- Chione, daughter of Callirrhoe, who was changed into a snow cloud.[5]
- Chione, daughter of Arcturus, who was abducted by Boreas and bore him three sons.[6]
- Chione, the naiad mother of Priapus by Dionysus.[7]
- Chione, one of the Niobids.[8]
Notes
- Grimal, s.v. Chione; Smith, s.v. Chione 1.; Apollodorus, 3.15.2, 1.9.21; Pausanias, 1.38.2.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.301
- Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 64.
- Hyginus, Fabulae 161
- Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 4.250. Edited by Georgius Thilo.
- Aelian, On Animals 11.1
- Scholia on Theocritus, 1.21
- Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 159
References
- Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
- Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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