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Oceanid of Greek mythology
In
Greek mythology , Callirhoe (or Kallirhoe , Callirrhoe ) (
Ancient Greek : Καλλιρό, Καλλιρρόη, or Καλλιρρόης means 'beautiful flow' or beautiful stream'
[1] ) was one of the
Oceanids , daughters of the
Titans :
Oceanus and
Tethys .
[2]
[3]
Family
Callirhoe had consorted with
Chrysaor ,
Neilus ,
Poseidon and
Manes . By Chrysaor, she became the mother of the monsters
Geryon
[4] and
Echidna
[5] while
Chione was her daughter by the river-god of
Egypt ,
Neilus .
[6] Meanwhile, to Poseidon, Callirhoe bore
Minyas , founder of
Minyan
Orchomenus ,
[7] and to Manes,
Cotys , a king of
Maeonia .
[8]
Mythology
Callirhoe was the
naiad who became the companion of
Persephone when the daughter of
Demeter was abducted by the lord of the dead,
Hades .
[9] She was one of the three ancestors of the
Tyrians , along with
Abarbarea and
Drosera .
[10]
Legacy
Jupiter's moon
Callirrhoe is named after her.
Notes
^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 75.
ISBN
9780786471119 .
^
Hesiod ,
Theogony 351
^
Kerényi , Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks . London:
Thames and Hudson . p. 41.
^ Hesiod, Theogony 287 & 981;
Apollodorus , 2.5.10;
Hyginus , Fabulae Preface & 151;
Stesichorus , fr. 512-513 & 587
^ Hesiod, Theogony
270-300 . Though
Herbert Jennings Rose says simply that it is "not clear which parents are meant",
Athanassakis ,
p. 44 , says that Phorcys and Ceto are the "more likely candidates for parents of this hideous creature who proceeded to give birth to a series of monsters and scourges". The problem arises from the ambiguous referent of the pronoun "she" in line 295 of the Theogony . While some have read this "she" as referring to Callirhoe (e.g. Smith
"Echidna" ; Morford, p. 162), according to Clay,
p. 159 n. 32 , "the modern scholarly consensus" reads Ceto, see for example Gantz, p. 22; Caldwell, pp. 7, 46 295–303; Grimal, "Echidna" p. 143.
^
Servius
Commentary on the
Aeneid of
Virgil ,
4.250 , ed. by Georgius Thilo
^
Tzetzes on
Lycophron ,
875
^
Dionysius of Halicarnassus ,
Roman Antiquities
1.27.1 .
^
Homeric Hymn to Demeter 2.417
^
Nonnus ,
Dionysiaca , 40.535 ff
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