Chthonius

In Greek mythology, the name Chthonius or Chthonios (Greek: Χθόνιος "of the earth or underworld") may refer to:

Chthonius is also a genus of pseudoscorpion:

References

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 4. 1 & 3. 5. 5
  2. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 5. 3
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae, 178
  4. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1179 & 1186
  5. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2. 1. 5
  6. Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, 5. 53. 1
  7. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12. 441
  8. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 48. 21
  9. Psyche: the cult of souls and the belief in immortality among the Greeks. By Erwin Rohde. Page 159 ISBN 0-415-22563-9
  10. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 2. 8 (in Corinth), 5. 14. 8 (in Olympia)
  11. Hesiod, Theogony, 767
  12. Euripides, Alcestis, 237; Andromache, 544
  13. Aeschylus, Libation-Bearers, 1, 118, 708; Persians, 626, 639
  14. Sophocles, Electra, 111; Ajax, 832
  15. Euripides, Alcestis, 743
  16. Aristophanes, Frogs, 1126, 1138, 1145
  17. Orphic Hymn 57
  18. Nonnus, Dionysiaca, 31. 144
  19. Orphic Hymn 53. 1
  20. Suda s. v. Zagreus
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