Xenopatra
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In Greek mythology, Xenopatra ({{langx|grc|Ξενοπάτρα|Xenopátra|she who has a foreign father}}), also called Chthonopatra ({{langx|grc|Χθονοπάτρα|Khthonopátra|she who has a subterranean father}}) was a Phthian princess who later on became the queen of Locris.
Biography
Xenopatra was the daughter of King Hellen of Thessaly, the eponym of the Hellenes.Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 p. 142]; Scholia on Plato's Symposium 208d (Cufalo, [https://books.google.com/books?id=WR4mcRM5_M8C&pg=PA108 pp. 108–10]) [= FGrHist [https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0004.bnjo-1-ed-grc:f125 4 F125] = Hellanicus [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC&pg=PA200 fr. 125 Fowler, pp. 200–1] = FGrHist 323a F23]. Her mother was the oread Orseis (Othreis), and sister to Aeolus, Dorus, Xuthus and probably Neonus.Stephanus of Byzantium, [https://archive.org/details/STEPHANUSVONBYZANZMargaretheBillerbeckChristianZublerSTEPHANIBYZANTIIENICAIIpdf/page/n147/mode/2up?view=theater s.v. Dotion (pp. 118, 119)] [= FGrHist [https://scholarlyeditions.brill.com/reader/urn:cts:greekLit:fgrh.0604.bnjo-1-ed-grc:f3 604 F3]].
Chthonopatra married her uncle King Amphictyon of Locris and by him mothered Physcus, his successor.Fowler 2013, [https://books.google.com/books?id=scd8AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA142 p. 142]; Fowler 1998, [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44696765?seq=12 p. 12 n. 29]; Eustathius on Homer's Iliad, 277.17. Other possible children of the couple were King Itonus of ItonPausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.1.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=Itonus 5.1.4] and an unnamed daughter who bore Cercyon by Poseidon, and Triptolemus by Rarus.Pausanias, [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.14.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:chapter=&highlight=daughter 1.14.3] with Choerilus in his play Alope as the source
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References
- Cufalo, Domenico, Scholia Graeca in Platonem, I: Scholia ad Dialogos Tetralogiarumi - VII Continens, Roma, Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2007. {{ISBN|978-8-884-98353-4}}.
- Fowler, R. L. (1998), "Genealogical thinking, Hesiod's Catalogue, and the Creation of the Hellenes", in Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, Vol. 44, pp. 1–19. {{JSTOR|44696765}}.
- Fowler, R. L. (2000), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1: Text and Introduction, Oxford University Press, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0198147404}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=j0nRE4C2WBgC Google Books].
- Fowler, R. L. (2013), Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2: Commentary, Oxford University Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0198147411}}.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
Category:Princesses in Greek mythology
Category:Queens in Greek mythology
Category:Mythological Thessalians
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