Chthonia (daughter of Alkyoneus)

Chthonia ( Greek  Χθονία ) is in Greek mythology one of the Alkyonids, daughters of Alkyoneus .

Chthonia, along with her sisters Anthe , Methone , Alkippe , Pallene , Drimo and Asterie, are transformed into kingfishers when they throw themselves off a cliff in mourning for their late father Alkyoneus.

literature

• Richard Engelmann : Chthonia 3 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 907 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Suda sv Ἀλκυονίδες
2. ↑ Eustathios von Thessalonike Commentary on Homer's Iliad 776, 37.