Rhoio
Rhoio ( Greek Ῥοιώ , the nymph of the pomegranate tree ) is a figure in Greek mythology . She was a daughter of the grape god Staphylos and Chrysothemis ; her siblings were Hemithea and Parthenus .
When the Argeier Lyrkos , the son of Phoroneus , stopped by Staphylos in Bubastis , the latter made his guest drunk so that he could bring him together with one of his daughters and thus have offspring from him. Both Rhoio and Hemithea fell in love with Lyrkos and Rhoio was jealous of her sister when she was allowed to spend the night with Lyrkos on her father's determination.
When she was impregnated by Apollon , Staphylos - who had no idea that the father was no mortal - was so angry that he locked her in a box and threw her into the sea. She was driven to the beach in Delos , where she gave birth to a son. She called him Anios and laid him down on Apollon's altar there, with the request that God would take care of the child. Apollo heard them and bestowed prophetic gifts on the son; Anios later became the priest-king on that island.
According to other accounts , Rhoio was driven to the coast of Euboia , where she gave birth to the child in a cave. Apollo is also said to have become the father of Sunios with her .
She later married Zarex , the son of Karystus , and had several sons with him.
literature
- Otto Höfer : Rhoio 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 4, Leipzig 1915, Col. 122-124 ( digitized version ).