Callirrhoe

"Fair-flowing." The daughter of Oceanus and Tethys. By Chrysaor she is the mother of Geryon,1 and by Nilus she is the mother of Chione, and by Poseidon of Minyas.2

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References

Notes

  1. Hesiod, Theogony, 351, 981; Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 5.10.
  2. Servius on Virgil's Aeneid iv, 250; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 686.

Sources

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  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.