Callirhoe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Callirrhoe, Callirhoe, Callirrhoë, or occasionally Kallirroi (/kəˈlɪroʊiː/; Ancient Greek: Καλλιρρόη, romanized: Kallirróē, lit. 'beautiful flow') may refer to the following characters:

• Callirrhoe, one of the Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, and the mother of Geryon by Chrysaor.^[1]
• Callirhoe, wife of Peiras, son of King Argus of Argos, son of Zeus and Niobe. She was the mother of Argus, Arestorides and Triopas.^[2]
• Callirhoe, the naiad daughter of the river god Scamander, wife of Tros,^[3][4] and thus, mother of Ilus, Assaracus, Ganymede, Cleopatra^[5] and possibly, Cleomestra.^[6][7][8]
• Callirhoe, daughter of Meander and consort of Car.^[9]
• Callirhoe, the naiad daughter of the river-god Nestus (Nessus) and mother of Biston, Odomas and Edonus by Ares.^[10] She was probably the sister of Thronia, another Thracian naiad.^[11]
• Callirhoe, a maiden who was loved by Coresus.^[12]
• Callirrhoe, daughter of the river-god Achelous, who betrothed her to Alcmaeon.^[13]
• Callirhoe, daughter of Lycus, king of Libya. She fell in love with Diomedes and saved him from being sacrificed to Ares by her father. After Diomedes left Libya, she hanged herself.^[14]
• Callirhoe, daughter of the Boeotian Phocus.^[15]

Notes

1. Hesiod, Theogony 351
2. Hyginus, Fabulae 145
3. Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 29
4. Scholia ad Homer's Iliad 20.231 who refers to Hellanicus as his authority
5. Apollodorus, 3.12.2
6. Dictys Cretensis, 4.22
7. Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
8. Bartelink, Dr. G.J.M. (1988). Prisma van de mythologie. Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
9. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Alabanda
10. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Bistonia
11. Pindar, Paean 2.1–2 (fr. 52b S–M)
12. Pausanias, 7.21.1
13. Apollodorus, 3.7.6 ff; Pausanias, 8.24.8–10
14. Plutarch, Parallela minora 23
15. Plutarch, Amatoriae Narrationes 4

References

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• 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, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• 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. 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.