KALLIRHOE
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.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A complete bibliography of the translations quoted on this page.