Daughter of the river-god Achelous who became Alcmaeon's second wife and demanded the necklace and robe of Harmonia — not to be confused with Callirrhoe the Oceanid mother of Geryon or Callirrhoe daughter of Scamander at Troy.1
When the land at Psophis grew barren on Alcmaeon's account, Apollo bade him depart to Achelous and stand another trial on the river bank. The river-god purified him, gave him Callirrhoe to wife, and the silt-islands where he settled — a second marriage after Arsinoe daughter of Phegeus.2
Callirrhoe coveted the necklace and robe and refused to live with Alcmaeon until she had them. He returned to Psophis and persuaded Phegeus to surrender the cursed gifts on the pretext of dedicating them at Delphi — but when Phegeus' sons learned he was carrying the heirlooms to Callirrhoe, they killed Alcmaeon at the ambush.3
Learning of her husband's death, Callirrhoe asked Zeus that the sons she had borne Alcmaeon might at once be full-grown to avenge their father. Amphoterus and Acarnan suddenly reached manhood, slew Phegeus and his sons, and carried the necklace and robe to Delphi before colonizing Acarnania.4
The name is borne elsewhere in the atlas by Callirrhoe daughter of Ocean, mother of Geryon in Hesiod, and by Callirrhoe daughter of Scamander, wife of Tros and mother of Ilus at Troy. The Achelous nymph who demanded Harmonia's jewels belongs only to the Alcmaeon cycle.5
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