Chione (daughter of Boreas)
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In Greek mythology Chione, or Khione,[1] (from Greek χιών - chiōn, "snow"[2]), the nymph or minor goddess of snow, was the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and Oreithyia, an Athenian princess whom he abducted.[3] Her siblings included Zetes, Calaides and Cleopatra.[4] She was loved by Poseidon and had with him a son Eumolpus.[5] In fear of her father's wrath, she cast the child into the sea, but Poseidon saved him and entrusted him to the care of Benthesikyme.[6] The Eumolpidae in charge of the Eleusinian mysteries claimed descent from her, as the mother of Eumolpus with Poseidon.
In modern literature, a character in Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero, Khione, is named after this mythical Chione.
References
- ^ Khione, on Theoi
- ^ χιών, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 157
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 15. 2
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 38. 2
- ^ Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 15. 4
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