CALLIRHOE (Kallirhoe) - Trojan Naiad Nymph of Greek Mythology (original) (raw)

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Greek Name

Καλλιρροη Καλλιροη

Transliteration

Kallirrhoê, Kallirhoê

Latin Spelling

Callirhoe, Calliroe

Translation

Beautifully-Flow (kalli-, rhoos)

KALLIRHOE (Callirhoe) was a Naiad-nymph of a spring, well or fountain of the city of Troy (north-western Anatolia). She was the wife of King Tros, the town's eponymous founder.

PARENTS

SKAMANDROS (Apollodorus 3.141)

OFFSPRING

GANYMEDES, ILOS, ASSARAKOS, KLEOPATRA (by Tros) (Apollodorus 3.141)

ENCYCLOPEDIA

CALLI′RRHOE (Kallirroê). A daughter of Scamander, the wife of Tros, and mother of Ilus and Ganymedes. (Apollod. iii. 12. § 2.)

Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 141 (trans. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) :
"Tros [king of Troy] married Skamandros' (Scamander's) daughter Kallirrhoe (Callirhoe), had a daughter Kleopatra (Cleopatra), and sons Ilos (Ilus), Assarakos (Assaracus), and Ganymedes. Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."

SOURCES

GREEK

• Apollodorus, The Library - Greek Mythography C2nd A.D.

OTHER SOURCES

Other references not currently quoted here: Dionysius of Halicarnassus 1.62.1.

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