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Euboia
Euboia
Euboea
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CalkiV
Khalkis
Chalcis
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EUBOIA (Euboea) or KHALKIS (Chalcis) was the Naiad Nymph of a fresh-water spring, well or fountain of Khalkis, the main town of the island of Euboia (central Greece). She was a daughter of the Boiotian river-god Asopos whom Poseidon abducted to the island.
Either the island of Euboia, or its chief settlement Khalkis were named after her.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
CHALCIS (Chalkis), one of the daughters of Asopus and Metope, from whom the town of Chalcis in Euboea was said to have derived its name. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 279.) According to others, Chalcis was the mother of the Curetes and Corybantes, the former of whom were among the earliest inhabitants of Chalcis. (Schol. Vict. ad Hom. Il. xiv. 291; Strab. x. p. 447.)
EUBOEA (Euboia), a daughter of Asopus, from whom the island of Euboea was believed to have derived its name. (Eustath. ad Hom. p. 278.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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"Of these nine daughters [of Asopos]... while Korkyra and Salamis and lovely Euboia were stolen by father Poseidon." - Greek Lyric IV Corinna, Frag 654
"They derive [the name of the island ] Euboia from a heroine." - Strabo, Geography 10.1.3
"Asopos made his home in Phlios [in Sikyonia], where he married Metope, the daughter of Ladon, to whom were born two sons, Pelasgos and Ismenos, and twelve daughters, Korkyra and Salamis, also Aigina, Peirene, and Kleone, then Thebe, Tanagra, Thespeia, and Asopis, also Sinope, and finally Ornia and Khalkis." - Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.72.1
"Euboia the maiden he [Poseidon who loved her] rooted in the sea." - Nonnus, Dionysiaca 42.411
Sources:
- Greek Lyric IV Corinna, Fragments - Greek Lyric C5th BC
- Strabo, Geography - Greek Geography C1st BC - C1st AD
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History - Greek History C1st BC
- Nonnos, Dionysiaca - Greek Epic C5th AD
Other references not currently quoted here: Eustathius on Homer's Iliad 278; Hesychius Euboia; Athenaeus 7.48; Claudian Epithalamium 10.158
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