Chalciope Explained

Chalciope (; Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Χαλκιόπη|Khalkiópē|lit=bronze-face), in Greek mythology, is a name that may refer to several characters.

• Chalciope, daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis and wife of Phrixus.^[1]
• Chalciope, daughter of Rhexenor^[2] (or of King Chalcodon of Euboea^[3]) and the second wife of King Aegeas of Athens. She bore no heirs to the king thus given by the king to one of his friends.^[4]
• Chalciope, daughter of Eurypylus of Cos, mother of Thessalus by Heracles.^[5]
• Chalciope, consort of the aforementioned Thessalus, mother of his son Antiphus,^[6] presumably also of Pheidippus and Nesson.^{[7] [8]}
• Chalciope or Chalcippe, daughter of Phalerus.^[9]
• Chalciope, mother of the musician Linus by Apollo.^[10]

References

• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 3, Cat-Cyp, editors: Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Brill, 2003. . Online version at Brill.
• Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Moralia with an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

Notes and References

1. [Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]
2. Apollodorus, 3.15.6
3. [Athenaeus]
4. Athenaeus, 13.4 (p. 556)
5. Brill's New Pauly, s.v. Chalciope (3); Apollodorus, 2.7.8; BNJ, 3 F78 [= Scholia ad [[Homer]]'s Iliad 14.255]; Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 58
6. Hyginus, Fabulae 97
7. [Homer]
8. [Strabo]
9. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, 1.97
10. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)