Chione the Boread

Numen — the Boread snow-nymph, fourth child of Boreas (greek_hesiod_boreas) and Oreithyia (greek_oreithyia); mother of Eumolpus (greek_eumolpus, authored in this batch) by Poseidon. DISTINCT from greek_chione (daughter of Daedalion, mother of Autolycus and Philammon) — a separate figure sharing only the snow-name; this Boread Chione is explicitly named as a sibling in the prose of greek_cleopatra_boread ('and of the Boreid Chione, mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon'). Her existing parents Boreas and Oreithyia each carry a dangling father-of/mother-of -> undefined that this entry resolves. Benthesicyme (Eumolpus's foster-mother) lacks an entry and is named rather than wired.

Parentage

• paternal: Boreas
• maternal: Oreithyia

Children

• Eumolpus

Domains

• snow

Powers

• Snow-nymph nature (Boread)
• Bear Eumolpus to Poseidon and be saved by the sea

Epithets

• Χιόνη Βορεὰς θυγάτηρ — Chione daughter of BoreasApollod. 3.15.2 (primary)

Relations

• lover: PoseidonBy Poseidon mother of Eumolpus.Apollod. 3.15.4 (primary)
• mother of: EumolpusApollod. 3.15.4 (primary)
• sibling: CleopatraApollod. 3.15.2-3 (primary)
• sibling: CalaisApollod. 3.15.2 (primary)
• sibling: ZetesApollod. 3.15.2 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Apollodorus 3.15.2, 3.15.4; Euripides Erechtheus fr. 349 Kannicht; Pausanias 1.38.2 (primary)
• parentage-and-motherhood-of-Eumolpus: Apollodorus 3.15.4 (primary)