Chios (mythology)
Chios ( ancient Greek Χίος ) is the eponymous hero of the island of the same name in Greek mythology .
Pausanias reports on an otherwise unrelated story by the playwright Ion von Chios , in which Poseidon's visit to the island is dealt with. Poseidon comes to the island when it is still uninhabited; with a nymph he fathered Chios, who got his name because of the snowfall that began at birth (ancient Greek Χίον "snow"). He begets Agelos and Melas with another nymph . In Stephanus of Byzantium Chios is as a son of Okeanos called.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Chios 1 & 2 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 896 ( digitized version ).
- Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Chios 4. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 2, Stuttgart 1899, Sp. 2298-2301 ( digitized 1 , 2 ).
