Callirrhoe (daughter of Achelous)

Also known as: Callirrhoe · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.7

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 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”

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