Callidice

Also known as: the daughter of Celeus and Metaneira (speaker) · Family: Eleusis · Role: daughter of Celeus · First appears: Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 1

In Part 1 of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Callidice is one of the daughters of Celeus, alongside Cleisidice, Demo, and Callithoe, the eldest. In Part 2, she invites Demeter to come to her home rather than search elsewhere, and speaks of her mother Metaneira and her young brother Demophoon.

In The Telegony, at Thesprotis, Callidice, queen of the Thesprotians, marries Odysseus. After her death, Polypoetes, the son of Odysseus, succeeds to the kingdom.

Relationship record

Life events

• Odysseus marries Callidice, queen of the Thesprotians.(The Telegony · 📍 Thesprotis)
  • With: Odysseus
  • “then goes to Thesprotis where he marries Callidice, queen of the Thesprotians.”
• After Callidice dies, Polypoetes succeeds to the kingdom.(The Telegony)
  • With: Polypoetes
  • “After the death of Callidice Polypoetes, the son of Odysseus, succeeds to the kingdom”

Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 1

• parent: Celeus “the daughters of Celeus, son of Eleusis, saw her”
• siblings with Cleisidice “four were they and like goddesses in the flower of their girlhood, Callidice and Cleisidice and lovely Demo and Callithoe who was the eldest of them all.”
• siblings with Demo “four were they and like goddesses in the flower of their girlhood, Callidice and Cleisidice and lovely Demo and Callithoe who was the eldest of them all.”
• siblings with Callithoe “four were they and like goddesses in the flower of their girlhood, Callidice and Cleisidice and lovely Demo and Callithoe who was the eldest of them all.”

Homeric Hymn II · To Demeter · Part 2

• parent: Celeus “there is wise Triptolemus and Dioclus and Polyxeinus and blameless Eumolpus and Dolichus and our own brave father.”
• parent: Metaneira “that she may bid you rather come to our home than search after the houses of others.”
• siblings with Demophoon “She has an only son, late-born, who is being nursed in our well-built house, a child of many prayers and welcome”

The Telegony

• married with Odysseus “then goes to Thesprotis where he marries Callidice, queen of the Thesprotians.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.