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Encyclopedia > Callirrhoe

In Greek mythology, three women were named Callirhoe or Callirrhoe:

  1. A daughter of Oceanus and mother of Echidna, one of the Oceanids.
  2. The daughter of Achelous. She was betrothed to Alcmaeon at the time of his death.
  3. A Calydonian woman who scorned a priest of Dionysus who in turn threatened to inflict all the women of Calydon with insanity (see Bacchae). The priest was ordered (by who?) to sacrifice Callirhoe but he killed himself instead. Callirhoe threw herself into a well which was later named after her.

Callirhoe is the title of the only novel known to have been written by the ancient Greek author Chariton.


Callirhoé is the only ballet written by French composer Cécile Chaminade.


In biology, Callirhoe is the genus of the poppy mallow plants.


In astronomy, Callirrhoe (spelled with two r 's) is a moon of Jupiter


Josephus mentions Herod the Great seeking relief from his terminal illness at the hot springs of Callirhoe or Callirrhoe, said to be east of the Dead Sea.


The Athenian Callirhoe is a hotel in Athens. [1] (http://www.tac.gr/)




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Callirrhoe (moon) (111 words)
Callirrhoe (pronounced "ka LEER uh wee") is one of Jupiter's outermost named natural satellites.
Callirrhoe is about 8.6 kilometers in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average of 24,102,000 kilometers.
It belongs to the Pasiphaë group, irregular retrograde moons orbiting Jupiter at distances ranging between 22.8 and 24.1 Gm, and with inclinations ranging between 144.5° and 158.3°.
CALLIRRHOE - LoveToKnow Article on CALLIRRHOE (516 words)
At her earnest request her husband induced Phegeus, king of Psophis in Arcadia,and the father of his first wife Arsinoe (or Alphesiboea), to handover to him the necklace and peplus (robe) of Harmonia (q.v.), that he might dedicate them at Delphi to complete the cure of his madness.
Callirrhoe now implored the gods that her two young sons might grow to manhood at once and avenge their fathers death.This was granted, and her sons Amphoterus and Acarnan slewPhegeus with his two sons, and returning with the necklace andpeplus dedicated them at Delphi (Ovid, Metam.
His wife, whom he divorced, subsequently became the wife ofPericles; one of his daughters, Hipparete, married Alcibiades;another, the wife of Theodorus, was the mother of the oratorIsocrates.
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