Chione (daughter of Boreas)
Chione ( Greek Χιόνη "snow-white") is in Greek mythology the daughter of Oreithyia and Boreas , the god embodied in the north wind. Her siblings were the twin brothers Kalaïs and Zetes and Cleopatra . From the connection with Poseidon comes the son Eumolpos , whom Chione, born secretly, throws into the sea, but the boy is saved by Poseidon.
Claudius Aelianus mentions in his animal stories three brothers of gigantic stature, sons of Boreas and the Chione, who served as priests to Apollo in the legendary northern country Hyperborea . He specifies their size as 10 cubits , which corresponds to at least 270 cm.
Chione is viewed as either a nymph or a lesser goddess of gentle breezes and snow.
literature
- Ludwig von Sybel : Chione 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 895 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3.15.2.1, 3.15.4.1
- ↑ Pausania's description of Greece 1.38.2
- ^ Claudius Aelianus De natura animalium 11.1
- ↑ Chione. Theoi Project, accessed November 23, 2013 .