In Greek mythology Chione or Khione[1] (from Greek χιών - chiōn, "snow"[2]), the nymph or minor goddess of snow, was the daughter of Boreas, the North Wind, and Oreithyia, an Athenian princess whom he abducted.[3] Her siblings included Zetes, Calaides and Cleopatra, the wife of Phineus.[4] She was loved by Poseidon and had with him a son Eumolpus.[5] In fear of her father's wrath, she cast the child into the sea, but Poseidon saved him and entrusted him to the care of Benthesikyme.[6] The Eumolpidae in charge of the Eleusinian mysteries claimed descent from her, as the mother of Eumolpus with Poseidon.
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Khione appears as an antagonist in Rick Riordan's The Lost Hero. She sides with Gaea and the Gigantes, against her father, Boreas.
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