Chione (daughter of Daedalion)

Chione (Greek Χιόνη ) In Greek mythology, the daughter of Daidalion.

Due to their beauty Chione had numerous suitors, to which the gods Hermes and Apollon included. Both she slept in the same night, where Apollo was waiting with his advertising until nightfall, while Hermes replied the girl to sleep and abused. Apollo begat with her ​​the Phil Ammon and Hermes the Autolycus, the father of Sisyphus and grandfather of Odysseus. Alternatively Philonis is called as mother of Phil Ammon and Autolycus. Your desirability Chione rose to head; they boasted to be a greater beauty than the goddess Artemis. Therefore, it was of this, killed with her attribute, the arrows. Daidalion wept for his only daughter and jumped from a peak of Parnassus, but Apollo turned him into the bird Daidalion ( Falcon ).

In later times, Chione was the name for a shameless woman.

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