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Kallirroh
Kallirrhoê,
Callirhoe
Beautifully Flowing
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Kalliroh
Kallirhoê
Calliroe
Beautifully Flowing
(kalli-, rhoos) |
KALLIRHOE (or Callirhoe) was an Okeanid Nymph of Erytheia (either a mythical island in the Western Ocean or a kingdom of Southern Spain). She was the mother by King Khrysaor of the three-bodied giant Geryon.
Kallirhoe was probably either the Naias of the main town's spring or fountain, or a rain-bringing cloud-goddess.
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| OKEANOS & TETHYS (Hesiod Theogony 351; Homeric Hymn 2.417; Stesichorus Frag 587; Apollodorus 2.106) |
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| GERYON (by Khrysaor) (Hesiod Theogony 287 & 980, Stesichorus Frag 510, Apollodorus 2.106, Hyginus Pref & Fabuale 151) |
ENCYCLOPEDIA
CALLI′RRHOE (Kallirroê). A daughter of Oceanus, who was the mother of Geryones and Echidna by Chrysaor. (Hesiod, Theog. 351, 981; Apollod. ii. 5. § 10.) By Neilus she was the mother of Chione, and by Poseidon of Minyas. (Serv. ad Aen. iv. 250; Tzetz. ad Lycoph. 686.)
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
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"Khrysaor, married to Kallirhoe, daughter of glorious Okeanos, was father to triple-headed Geryon." - Hesiod, Theogony 287
"She [Tethys] brought forth also a race apart of daughters, who with lord Apollon and the Rivers have the young in their keeping all over the earth, since this right from Zeus is given them. They are ... Rhodeia and Kallirhoe [amongst 41 named] ...
Now these are the eldest of the daughters who were born to Tethys and Okeanos .... and all alike they look after the earth and the depths of the standing water." - Hesiod, Theogony 346
"Sing out now the names of those goddesses who went to bed with mortal men and, themselves immortal, bore to these children in the likeness of immortals ... Kallirhoe, daughter of Okeanos, lying in the embraces of powerful-minded Khrysaor, through Aphrodite the golden bore him a son, most powerful of all men mortal, Geryones." - Hesiod, Theogony 966 & 979
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"The mighty son [Geryon] of immortal Khrysaor and Kallirhoe." - Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag 511
"And seeing him [Geryon] coming she [Kallirhoe] addressed him: 'Strength ruins victory - obey me, my child." - Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag 512
"I [Kallirhoe], unhappy woman, miserable in the child I bore, miserable in my sufferings; but I beseech you, Geryon, if ever I offered you my breast - at your dear mother's side, gladdened - by your feasting.' With these words she opened her fragrant robe." - Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag 513
"Geryon is the son of Kallirrhoe, daughter of Okeanos, and Khrysaor." - Stesichorus, Geryoneis Frag 587
"From Medusa, daughter of Gorgon, and Neptunus [Poseidon], were born Chrysaor and horse Pegasus; from Chrysaor and Callirhoe, three-formed Geryon." - Hyginus, Fabulae 151
Sources:
- Hesiod, Theogony - Greek Epic C8th-7th BC
- Greek Lyric III, Stesichorus - Greek Lyric C7th-6th BC
- Hyginus, Fabulae - Latin Mythography C2nd AD
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