Xenopatra Explained

In Greek mythology, Xenopatra (Ancient Greek: Ξενοπάτρα), also called Chthonopatra (Χθονοπάτρα) was a Phthian princess who later on became the queen of Locris.

Biography

Xenopatra was the daughter of King Hellen of Thessaly, the eponym of the Hellenes.^[1] Her mother was the oread Orseis (Othreis), and sister to Aeolus, Dorus, Xuthus and probably Neonus.^[2]

Chthonopatra married her uncle King Amphictyon of Locris and by him mothered Physcus, his successor.^[3] Other possible children of the couple were King Itonus of Iton^[4] and an unnamed daughter who bore Cercyon by Poseidon, and Triptolemus by Rarus.^[5]

References

• Cufalo, Domenico, Scholia Graeca in Platonem, I: Scholia ad Dialogos Tetralogiarumi - VII Continens, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007. .
• Fowler, R. L. (1998), "Genealogical thinking, Hesiod's Catalogue, and the Creation of the Hellenes", in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Vol. 44, pp. 1–19. .
• Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. . Google Books.
• Fowler, R. L. (2013), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2013. .
• 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.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.

Notes and References

1. Fowler 2013, p. 142; Scholia on Plato's Symposium 208d (Cufalo, pp. 108 - 10) [= ''[[FGrHist]] 4 F125 = Hellanicus fr. 125 Fowler, pp. 200 - 1 = FGrHist 323a F23].
2. [Stephanus of Byzantium]
3. Fowler 2013, p. 142; Fowler 1998, p. 12 n. 29; Eustathius on Homer's Iliad, 277.17.
4. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
5. Pausanias, 1.14.3 with Choerilus in his play Alope as the source