Pausanias' Description of Greece

Chalcinia

Family: Sicyonian mythology · Role: daughter of Leucippus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 5

Life events

  • Chalcinia bears Peratus to Poseidon; Leucippus raises him, and Peratus inherits the kingdom.(Book 2 · Chapter 5)
    • With: Poseidon Peratus Leucippus (son of Thurimachus)
    • “Leucippus had no male children, and only one daughter Chalcinia, who they say bore a child to Poseidon, who was called Peratus, and was brought up by Leucippus, and on his death succeeded to the kingdom as his heir.”

Book 2 · Chapter 5

  • parent: Leucippus (son of Thurimachus) (parent->child) “and Leucippus had no male children, and only one daughter Chalcinia,”
  • child: Peratus (parent->child) “who they say bore a child to Poseidon, who was called Peratus, and was brought up by Leucippus,”

Also listed in Sicyonian Mythology — Minor Figures

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