Kallirrhoë (daughter of Acheloos)
Kallirrhoë ( ancient Greek Καλλιρρόη Kallirróē , German 'the beautiful flowing ' ) or Kallirhoë is a naiad of Greek mythology .
She was the daughter of the river god Acheloos and the second wife of Alkmaion . When the latter was murdered by the brothers of his first wife Arsinoë because he had fulfilled Kallirrhoë's wish to fetch the collar and robe of Harmonia for them, Kallirrhoë asked Zeus , their two sons from Alkmaion, Amphoteros and Akarnan , to grow up quickly into men so that they could avenge the death of their father. Zeus granted the request and Kallirrhoë's sons, who had come of age in a miraculous way, killed the murderers of Alkmaion and their father Phegeus of Psophis.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Kallirrhoë 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 929 ( digitized version ).
- Kurt Latte : Kallirrhoë 2. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, column 1668 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Kallirrhoë in the Theoi Project (English)
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 7, 5f.