Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Callirrhoe.
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Callirhoe (daughter of Achelous)
Naiad daughter of Achelous, second wife of Alcmaeon — she demands Harmonia's necklace and robe, then prays Zeus for sons who will avenge their father. Not the Oceanid Callirhoe nor the Calydonian spring-nymph of the same name.
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Alcmaeon (mythology)
Callirhoe's husband after his purification by Achelous — the Epigoni matricide whose second marriage ends in the necklace's deadly demand.
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Alcmaeon in Corinth
Euripides
Euripides' posthumous tragedy of Alcmaeon's children — the Corinthian recognition play that keeps Callirhoe's line in Attic drama.
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Achelous
Callirhoe's river-god father — the Aetolian stream who purifies Alcmaeon and gives him his daughter.