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In Greek mythology, Chione or Khionê (/kaɪˈoʊniː/;[1] Ancient Greek: Χιόνη, romanized: Khiónē, from χιών, khiṓn, 'snow') may refer to the following women:
- Chione, daughter of Boreas and mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon.[2]
- Chione, daughter of Daedalion, and mother of Philammon and Autolycus by Apollo and Hermes respectively.[3] She may be the same with Philonis[4] and Leuconoe.[5]
- Chione, daughter of Callirrhoe, who was changed into a snow cloud.[6]
- Chione, daughter of Arcturus, who was abducted by Boreas and bore him three sons.[7]
- Chione, the naiad mother of Priapus by Dionysus.[8]
- Chione, one of the Niobids.[9]
- ^ Avery, Catherine B., ed. (1962). New Century Classical Handbook. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts. p. 279.
- ^ Grimal, s.v. Chione; Smith, s.v. Chione 1.; Apollodorus, 3.15.2, 1.9.21; Pausanias, 1.38.2.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 11.301
- ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 64.
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 161
- ^ Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 4.250. Edited by Georgius Thilo.
- ^ Aelian, On Animals 11.1
- ^ Scholia on Theocritus, 1.21
- ^ Fowler 2013, p. 367; Pherecydes fr. 126 Fowler 2000, p. 342 = FGrHist 3 F 126 = Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 159.