Callirhoe

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Callirhoe or Callirrhoe may mean:

• Callirhoe (genus), a genus of plant within the Mallow family
• Callirrhoe (moon), a moon of Jupiter

Callirhoe or Callirrhoe is the name of several women from Greek mythology:

• Callirhoê, daughter of Lycus, who betrayed her father to her lover, Diomedes.
• Callirrhoe (naiad), a daughter of Oceanus and mother of Echidna, one of the Oceanids
• Callirhoe, the daughter of the river-god Achelous, who betrothed her to Alcmaeon
• Callirhoe, a woman of Calydon who scorned, Coresus, a priest of Dionysus who in turn threatened to inflict all the women of Calydon with a plague that led to insanity (see Bacchae). In the end Coresus sacrificed himself to save her from being sacrificed. Callirhoe, in remorse, cut her throat.
• Callirhoe, daughter of the river-god Scamander and the nymph Idaea. She had four children by Tros: Cleopatra, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymedes. Other sources say that Tros was instead her son by Erichthonius.
• Callirhoe, wife of Piras, son of king Argus of Argos
• Callirhoe, one of the three naiads who are the mothers of the Tyrian race. They were joined to the sons of the soil.

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Callirhoe may also be:

• Callirhoe, the heroine of the only novel known to have been written by the ancient Greek author Chariton
• Callirhoé, the only ballet written by French composer Cécile Chaminade
• Callirhoe, the name of the waters Herod the Great sought as relief from his terminal illness, said to be east of the Dead Sea
• Athenian Callirhoe, a hotel in Athens