Callirrhoe

Family: Greek mythology · Role: nymph · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.5

Callirrhoe is a nymph of Greek mythology, described as a daughter of Ocean. Chrysaor was joined to her in love—“But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean”—and they had Geryon. Later, at the springs of Achelous, Achelous purified Alcmaeon, who married Callirrhoe and settled with her on land newly formed by the river’s silt. Their sons were Amphoterus and Acarnan.

After Alcmaeon’s untimely death, Zeus courted Callirrhoe, and she requested that her sons by Alcmaeon become full grown. In another account, Tros married Callirrhoe, daughter of Scamander, and they had Cleopatra, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede.

Relationship record

Life events

• Achelous purifies Alcmaeon, who marries Callirrhoe and settles on newly formed land.(Apollodorus, Library 3.7 · 📍 Achelous)
  • With: Alcmaeon Achelous
  • “finally he went to the springs of Achelous, and was purified by him, and received Callirrhoe, his daughter, to wife. Moreover he colonized the land which the Achelous had formed by its silt, and he took up his abode there.”

Apollodorus, Library 2.5

• child: Geryones “Geryon, son of Chrysaor by Callirrhoe, daughter of Ocean.”
• parent: Ocean (Callirrhoe is the daughter of Ocean.) “Callirrhoe, daughter of Ocean.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.7

• parent: Achelous “he went to the springs of Achelous, and was purified by him, and received Callirrhoe, his daughter, to wife”
• married with Alcmaeon “he went to the springs of Achelous, and was purified by him, and received Callirrhoe, his daughter, to wife”
• admirer: Zeus “Being apprized of Alcmaeon's untimely end and courted by Zeus, Callirrhoe requested that the sons she had by Alcmaeon might be full grown”
• child: Amphoterus “the sons she had by Alcmaeon”
• child: Acarnan “the sons she had by Alcmaeon”
• child: Alcmaeon “the sons she had by Alcmaeon”

Apollodorus, Library 3.12

• married with Tros “and marrying Callirrhoe, daughter of Scamander, he begat a daughter Cleopatra, and sons, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede.”
• child: Cleopatra “and marrying Callirrhoe, daughter of Scamander, he begat a daughter Cleopatra, and sons, Ilus, Assaracus, and Ganymede.”
• parent: Scamander “marrying Callirrhoe, daughter of Scamander”

Hesiod, Theogony 139-265

• courtship with Chrysaor “But Chrysaor was joined in love to Callirrhoe, the daughter of glorious Ocean”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.