Chione (Greek myth) explained

In Greek mythology, Chione or Khionê (;^[1] Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Χιόνη|Khiónē, from Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: χιών|khiṓn|snow|label=none) may refer to the following women:

• Chione, daughter of Boreas and mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon.^[2]
• Chione, daughter of Daedalion, and mother of Philammon and Autolycus by Apollo and Hermes respectively.^[3] She may be the same with Philonis^[4] and Leuconoe.^[5]
• Chione, daughter of Callirrhoe, who was changed into a snow cloud.^[6]
• Chione, daughter of Arcturus, who was abducted by Boreas and bore him three sons.^[7]
• Chione, the naiad mother of Priapus by Dionysus.^[8]
• Chione, one of the Niobids.^[9]

Notes

1. Book: New Century Classical Handbook. 279 . Catherine B. . Avery . Appleton-Century-Crofts . New York . 1962.
2. Grimal, s.v. Chione; Smith, s.v. Chione 1.; Apollodorus, 3.15.2, 1.9.21; Pausanias, 1.38.2.
3. [Ovid]
4. [Hesiod]
5. [Hyginus]
6. [Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]
7. [Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]
8. [Scholia]
9. Fowler 2013, p. 367; Pherecydes fr. 126 Fowler 2000, p. 342 = FGrHist 3 F 126 = Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 159.

References

• Conon, Fifty Narrations, surviving as one-paragraph summaries in the Bibliotheca (Library) of Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople translated from the Greek by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• 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.
• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii. Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii; recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen. Georgius Thilo. Leipzig. B. G. Teubner. 1881. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.