Chione
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Chione or Khione (Χιόνη) may refer to:

In Greek mythology

  • Chione (daughter of Boreas)
    Chione (daughter of Boreas)
    In Greek mythology Chione, or Khione, , the nymph or minor goddess of snow, was the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and Oreithyia, an Athenian princess whom he abducted. Her siblings included Zetes, Calaides and Cleopatra. She was loved by Poseidon and had with him a son Eumolpus...

    , mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon
  • Chione (daughter of Daedalion)
    Chione (daughter of Daedalion)
    In Greek mythology Chione was the daughter of Daedalion. She was very beautiful, and had countless suitors, including the gods Apollo and Hermes. Apollo waited for nightfall and then approached her in the guise of an old woman. Hermes put her to sleep and raped her...

    , mother of Philammon and Autolycus by Apollo and Hermes respectively
  • Chione (daughter of Callirrhoe)
    Chione (daughter of Callirrhoe)
    In Greek mythology, Chione was the daughter of the naiad Callirrhoe and Neilus. She was transformed into a snow cloud by Hermes at the order of Zeus; the Greek word for snow was thought to have come from her name.-Sources:...

    , who was changed into a snow cloud
  • Chione (daughter of Arcturus)
    Chione (daughter of Arcturus)
    In Greek mythology, Chione was a consort of Boreas. The account of Pseudo-Plutarch makes her a daughter of Arcturus; she is said to have been abducted by Boreas and brought by him to Mount Niphantes, where she bore him a son Hyrpax, who later inherited the throne of King Heniochus; the mountain was...

    , who was abducted by Boreas and bore him three sons
  • Chione, mother of Priapus
    Priapus
    In Greek mythology, Priapus or Priapos , was a minor rustic fertility god, protector of livestock, fruit plants, gardens and male genitalia. Priapus is marked by his absurdly oversized, permanent erection, which gave rise to the medical term priapism...

     by Dionysus
  • Chione, one of the Niobids
    Niobids
    In Greek mythology, the Niobids were the children of Amphion of Thebes and Niobe, slain by Apollo and Artemis because Niobe, born of the royal house of Phrygia, had boastfully compared the greater number of her own offspring with those of Leto, Apollo's and Artemis' mother: a classic example of...


In biology

  • Chione (plant genus)
    Chione (plant genus)
    Chione is a genus of flowering plants in the family Rubiaceae. They are native to the neotropics, occurring in most of Mexico, and throughout Central America, the Caribbean, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Typically, they are trees, 10 to 20 meters tall. In harsh habitats, they may be dwarfed and...

    , a plant genus in the family Rubiaceae
  • Chione (genus)
    Chione (genus)
    Chione is a genus of tropical American marine bivalve molluscs, in the family Veneridae.-Species:* Chione amathusia * Chione californiensis W. J. Broderip, 1835 - California venus, Banded venus...

    , a genus of bivalves in the family Veneridae

In popular culture

  • Khione (The Lost Hero), daughter of Boreas, a character in the book The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan
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