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Chalciope

Chalciope (/ˌkælˈs.əp/; Ancient Greek: Χαλκιόπη, romanized: Khalkiópē means "bronze-face"), in Greek mythology, is a name that may refer to several characters.

  • Chalciope, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, sister of Medea and wife of Phrixus, by whom she had four sons: Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytisorus (some authors add Presbon).[1][2][3][4] When Aeetes was dethroned and banished by his brother Perses, Chalciope expressed great filial devotion and stayed by her father's side,[5] even though he had killed her husband.[2] Hesiod referred to her as Iophossa,[6] and Pherecydes as Euenia.[7]
  • Chalciope, daughter of Rhexenor[8] (or of Chalcodon[9][10]) and the second wife of Aegeas. She bore him no heirs.
  • Chalciope, daughter of Eurypylus of Cos, mother of Thessalus by Heracles.[11][12]
  • Chalciope, consort of the aforementioned Thessalus, mother of his son Antiphus,[13] presumably also of Pheidippus and Nesson.[14][15]
  • Chalciope or Chalcippe, daughter of Phalerus.[16]
  • Chalciope, mother of the musician Linus by Apollo.[17]

Notes

  1. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.1
  2. ^ a b Hyginus, Fabulae 3 (he erroneously refers to Cytisorus as "Cylindrus")
  3. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 9.34.8
  4. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1122
  5. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 254
  6. ^ Cited in scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 2. 1122
  7. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1149
  8. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.15.6
  9. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Medea 673
  10. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 13.4
  11. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8
  12. ^ Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 58
  13. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97
  14. ^ Homer, Iliad 2.679
  15. ^ Strabo, Geographica 9.5.23
  16. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 97
  17. ^ Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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