Name of several characters in Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, Callirrhoe, Callirhoe, Callirrhoë, or occasionally Kallirroi (; 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]
- ^ Hesiod, Theogony 351
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 145
- ^ Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 29
- ^ Scholia ad Homer's Iliad 20.231 who refers to Hellanicus as his authority
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.12.2
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 4.22
- ^ Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- ^ Bartelink, Dr. G.J.M. (1988). Prisma van de mythologie. Utrecht: Het Spectrum.
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Alabanda
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Bistonia
- ^ Pindar, Paean 2.1–2 (fr. 52b S–M)
- ^ Pausanias, 7.21.1
- ^ Apollodorus, 3.7.6 ff; Pausanias, 8.24.8–10
- ^ Plutarch, Parallela minora 23
- ^ Plutarch, Amatoriae Narrationes 4