Chloris
Greek · quartigod · heroic age · Recorded classification
Quartigod surviving Niobid daughter of Amphion by Niobe per Apollodorus 3.5.6. The "pale-of-fear" etymology cited by Apollodorus connects her name (chloros = pale-green) to her terror during the Apollo-Artemis massacre that killed her siblings. Married Neleus king of Pylos; mother of Nestor — making Chloris the maternal-ancestor of the Iliadic Pylian war-contingent through Nestor and his sons Antilochus and Thrasymedes. Some scholars distinguish Chloris-the-Niobid from Chloris-wife-of-Neleus, but Apollodorus 1.9.9 explicitly identifies them as the same figure; the registry follows the Apollodoran identification.
Parentage
- father: AmphionApollod. 3.5.6; Paus. 2.21.9 (primary)
- mother: NiobeApollod. 3.5.6; Paus. 2.21.9 (primary)
Children
Relations
- father: AmphionApollod. 3.5.6; Paus. 2.21.9 (primary)
- mother: NiobeApollod. 3.5.6; Paus. 2.21.9 (primary)
- sibling: AmyclasThe two surviving Niobid siblings.Apollod. 3.5.6 (primary)
- spouse: NeleusHom. Od. 11.281-284; Apollod. 1.9.9 (primary)
- mother of: Nestor (Iliadic king of Pylos) · GreekHom. Od. 11.286; Apollod. 1.9.9 (primary)
Sources
- existence: Homer, Odyssey 11.281-297; Apollodorus 1.9.9, 3.5.6; Pausanias 2.21.9, 5.16.4; Hesiod fr. 33 M-W (primary)
- parentage: Apollod. 3.5.6 (primary)