Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Chione.
The gallery
Boreas Abducting Oreithyia
Francesco Solimena, c. 1729
Solimena paints the North Wind carrying Oreithyia — the abduction that begets Chione, Cleopatra, Zetes and Calais. Chione is the snow-daughter of that Thracian marriage, mother of Eumolpus by Poseidon.
Boreas Abducting Oreithyia (detail)
Francesco Solimena, c. 1729
Detail of Solimena's canvas: Oreithyia in Boreas' grip — the parents of Chione of Thrace, not Chione daughter of Daedalion whom Artemis slew.
Boreas Abducting Oreithyia (Vienna)
Francesco Solimena, c. 1729
Kunsthistorisches Museum version of the same rape: the founding scene of Chione's Boread house.
Boreas and Oreithyia
Oreithyia Painter, c. 470 BC
Attic pointed amphora: Boreas seizes Oreithyia — the classical image of the parents who will raise Chione beside the winged Argonauts Zetes and Calais.