Kallirrhoë (daughter of Oceanus)

Kallirrhoë ( Greek  Καλλιρρόη , the beautiful flowing ) or Kallirhoë is an Oceanid of Greek mythology .

She is a daughter of the titans Oceanus and Tethys . Mostly she is described as the wife of Chrysaor and by him as the mother of Geryones , but also of Poseidon , with whom she has Minyas as a son. or of Neilos , of whom she is the mother of the Chione . In a Lydian variant, she is the wife of Manes and mother of Kotys .

In the Homeric Hymns she appears in the circle of Persephone .

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 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume X, 2, Stuttgart 1919, column 1668 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hesiod , Theogony 351.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Library of Apollodor 2, 106.
3. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 979 ff.
4. ^ Hyginus , Fabulae 151.
5. ^ Tzetzes , ad Lycophronem 874; Scholion at Pindar , Olympic Oden 14.5.
6. ^ Servius , Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 4,250.
7. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Roman antiquities 1,27,1.
8. ↑ Homeric Hymns 5,419.