Chalcis

One of the daughters of Asopus and Metope, from whom the town of Chalcis in Euboea was said to have derived its name.1 According to others, Chalcis was the mother of the Curetes and Corybantes, the former of whom were among the earliest inhabitants of Chalcis.2

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References

Notes

  1. Eustathius on Homer, p. 279.
  2. Scholiast Vict. on Homer's Iliad xiv, 291; Strabo. Geography x, p. 447.

Source

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

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.