Chios, one of the Oceanids as a daughter of the Titan Oceanus possibly by his sister-wife, Tethys. Chios, son of Poseidon and an unnamed Chian nymph. He received his name from the heavy snowfall that occurred while his mother was in labour (cf. Ancient Greek χιών chiōn "snow").
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According to ancient Greek mythology, the first King of Chios was Oinopeonas (or Inopion), grandson of Minos King of Crete, and son of Dionysus and Ariadne, ...
According to ancient Greek mythology, the first King of Chios was Oinopeonas or Inopion, the grandson of Minoas king of Crete, the son of Dionysus and ...
Chios is the fifth largest Greek island, situated in the northern Aegean Sea, and the tenth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is separated ...
Ancient Greece. According to ancient Greek mythology, the first King of Chios was Oinopeonas, grandson of Minos King of Crete, and son of Dionysus and ...
In Greek mythology the Nymph of Chios was an unnamed Naiad-nymph of the spring, well or fountain of the towns of Agelos and Melas on the Aegean island of ...
Son of Dionysus by Ariadne. Migrates from Crete to Chios, king of Chios, father of Merope, blinds Orion, and is hidden from Orion by Poseidon in an underground ...
Like only a few other Greek islands, Chios appears to have been populated since the Neolithic era, contributing significantly to the development of western ...
Mythology says that the first colonist of Chios was Oinopionas from Crete, the grandson of King Minos who taught the inhabitants the art of wine-making. The ...
Oinopoionas was the king of Chios. According to the myth when Orion arrived on the island he was offered hospitality in the king's palace. He fell in love with ...