Xenopatra

In Greek mythology, Xenopatra (Ancient Greek: Ξενοπάτρα), also called Chthonopatra (Χθονοπάτρα) was a Phthian princess who later on became the queen of Locris.

Biography

Xenopatra was the daughter of King Hellen of Thessaly, the eponym of the Hellenes.^[1] Her mother was the oread Orseis (Othreis), and sister to Aeolus, Dorus, Xuthus and probably Neonus.^[2]

Chthonopatra married her uncle King Amphictyon of Locris and by him mothered Physcus, his successor.^[3] Other possible children of the couple were King Itonus of Iton^[4] and an unnamed daughter who bore Cercyon by Poseidon, and Triptolemus by Rarus.^[5]

Notes

1. Fowler 2013, p. 142; Scholia on Plato's Symposium 208d (Cufalo, pp. 108–10) [= FGrHist 4 F125 = Hellanicus fr. 125 Fowler, pp. 200–1 = FGrHist 323a F23].
2. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dotion (pp. 118, 119) [= FGrHist 604 F3].
3. Fowler 2013, p. 142; Fowler 1998, p. 12 n. 29; Eustathius on Homer's Iliad, 277.17.
4. Pausanias, 5.1.4  
5. Pausanias, 1.14.3 with Choerilus in his play Alope as the source

References

• Cufalo, Domenico, Scholia Graeca in Platonem, I: Scholia ad Dialogos Tetralogiarumi - VII Continens, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007. ISBN 978-8-884-98353-4.
• Fowler, R. L. (1998), "Genealogical thinking, Hesiod's Catalogue, and the Creation of the Hellenes", in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Vol. 44, pp. 1–19. JSTOR 44696765.
• Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 978-0198147404. Google Books.
• Fowler, R. L. (2013), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0198147411.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.