Callirhoe (mythology)
Name of several characters in Greek mythology
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In Greek mythology, Callirrhoe, Callirhoe, or Callirrhoë (/kəˈlɪroʊiː/; Ancient Greek: Καλλιρρόη, romanized: Kallirróē, lit. 'beautiful flow') may refer to the following characters:
- Callirhoe, one of the Oceanid daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, and the mother of Geryon by Chrysaor.[1]
- Callirhoe, wife of Peiras, son of King Argus of Argos, son of Zeus and Niobe. She was the mother of Argus, Arestorides and Triopas.[2]
- Callirhoe, the naiad daughter of the river god Scamander, wife of Tros,[3][4] and thus, mother of Ilus, Assaracus, Ganymede, Cleopatra[5] and possibly, Cleomestra.[6][7][8]
- Callirhoe, daughter of Meander, a river god. Alabanda (after whom the city is named) is her child by Car.[9]
- Callirhoe, daughter of the river-god Nestus and mother of Biston, Odomantus, Mygdon and Edonus by Ares.[10]
- Callirhoë, a maiden who was loved by Coresus, but she rejected him. Coresus prayed to Dionysus to avenge him, and Dionysus sent a plague that could only stop if Callirhoe was sacrificed to the god.[11]
- Callirrhoe, daughter of the river-god Achelous, who betrothed her to Alcmaeon.[12]
- Callirhoe, daughter of Lycus, the king of Libya, in Plutarch's Parallel Lives.[13] She fell in love with Diomedes and saved him from being sacrificed to Ares by her father. After Diomedes left Libya, she hanged herself.[14]
- Callirhoe, daughter of the Boeotian Phocus.[15]
- In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, Callirhoe is a nymph from Tyre who falls victim to an arrow of Eros. She is one of the progenitors of the Tyrians, and is an original creation of Nonnus.[16]
- A scholium on Persius describes Paris's first consort as Callirhoe, owing to confusion with Oenone.[17]
