Chione (Greek myth)

For other uses, see Chione.

In Greek mythology, Chione or Khionê (/kaɪˈoʊniː/;^[1] Ancient Greek: Χιόνη, romanized: Khiónē, from χιών, khiṓn, 'snow') may refer to the following women:

• Chione, daughter of Boreas and mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon.^[2]
• Chione, daughter of Daedalion, and mother of Philammon and Autolycus by Apollo and Hermes respectively.^[3] She may be the same with Philonis^[4] and Leuconoe.^[5]
• Chione, daughter of Callirrhoe, who was changed into a snow cloud.^[6]
• Chione, daughter of Arcturus, who was abducted by Boreas and bore him three sons.^[7]
• Chione, the naiad mother of Priapus by Dionysus.^[8]
• Chione, one of the Niobids.^[9]

Notes

1. Avery, Catherine B., ed. (1962). New Century Classical Handbook. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. p. 279.
2. Grimal, s.v. Chione; Smith, s.v. Chione 1.; Apollodorus, 3.15.2, 1.9.21; Pausanias, 1.38.2.
3. Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.301
4. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 64.
5. Hyginus, Fabulae 161
6. Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 4.250. Edited by Georgius Thilo.
7. Aelian, On Animals 11.1
8. Scholia on Theocritus, 1.21
9. Fowler 2013, p. 367; Pherecydes fr. 126 Fowler 2000, p. 342 = FGrHist 3 F 126 = 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.