Chthonius

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

• Chthonius, one of the five surviving Spartoi in Thebes, father of Lycus and Nycteus^[1][2][3][4] (but see Hyrieus).
• Chthonius, one of the sons of Aegyptus and Caliadne, who married and was killed by Bryce, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo.^[5]
• Chthonius, son of Poseidon and Syme, who founded the first colony on the island of Syme, which was named after his mother.^[6]
• Chthonius, a Centaur who was killed by Nestor at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia.^[7]
• Chthonius, one of the Gigantes.^[8]
• Chthonius, an epithet of several major gods,^[9] including Zeus,^[10] Hades,^[11][12] Hermes,^{[13][14][15][16][17]} and Dionysus.^[18][19][20] See Chthonia for goddesses bearing the feminine version of the epithet.

Chthonius is also a genus of pseudoscorpion:

• Chthonius (genus)

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