Xenopatra
figure in Greek mythology
In Greek mythology, Xenopatra (Ancient Greek: Ξενοπάτρα, romanized: Xenopátra, lit. 'she who has a foreign father'), also called Chthonopatra (Ancient Greek: Χθονοπάτρα, romanized: Khthonopátra, lit. '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. Her mother was the oread Orseis (Othreis), and sister to Aeolus, Dorus, Xuthus and probably Neonus.
Chthonopatra married her uncle King Amphictyon of Locris and by him mothered Physcus, his successor. Other possible children of the couple were King Itonus of Iton and an unnamed daughter who bore Cercyon by Poseidon, and Triptolemus by Rarus.
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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.
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