Chloe (name)

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Chloe ( Eng. "The green one") is a female name that was originally used as an epithet of the Greek goddess Demeter , as it were as the protector of the young seed .

In her honor, a spring festival ( Chloeia ) with ram offerings and amusing games was celebrated in Athens on the 6th Thargelion (end of May) . Their temple was near the Acropolis .

The name went down in European literary history as the main female character in Longos ' late Roman pastoral and love novel Daphnis and Chloe .

Therefore, Chloe (also Chloé), especially in French poetry, is also the name of girls, especially shepherdesses in shepherd poems and shepherd novels of the Baroque era .

Well-known namesake

First name

stage name

  • Chloë des Lysses (* 1972), actually Nathalie Boët , French porn actress and photographer
  • Chloe Vevrier (* 1968), actually Andrea Irena Fischer , German porn actress
  • Chloe (porn actress) (* 1971), actually Chloe Hoffman , American porn actress
  • Chloe Jones (1975-2005), actually Melinda Dee Taylor , American porn actress

Companies

  • Chloé , French fashion company