Chloris of Thebes

In Greek mythology, the name Chloris (/ˈklɔːrɪs/; Greek Χλωρίς Khlōris, from χλωρός khlōros, meaning "greenish-yellow", "pale green", "pale", "pallid", or "fresh") also called Meliboea, was one of Niobe and Amphion's fourteen children (the Niobids). She was often confused with another Chloris, daughter of another Amphion, who became the wife of Neleus of Pylos.

For other uses, see Chloris.

Mythology

Meliboea was the only one (or one of two) spared when Artemis and Apollo killed the Niobids in retribution for Niobe's insult to their mother Leto, bragging that she had many children and Leto had only two. Meliboea was so frightened by the ordeal, she turned permanently pale, changing her name to Chloris ("pale one").[1][2][3] Pausanias mentioned a statue of Chloris near the sanctuary of Leto in Argos.[4] In another version, she is a daughter of Teiresias.[5]

Notes
  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 5. 6, referring to Telesilla
  2. Hyginus, Fabulae, 9-10
  3. Tzetzes, Chiliades, 4. 422
  4. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 21. 9
  5. Scholia on Pindar, Nemean Ode 9. 57; in scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 834 were mentioned the names of her mother (Xanthe?), herself and her two siblings, but the text is badly corrupt.
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