Daughter of Daedalion, whom Apollo and Hermes both lay with on the same night — by Apollo she bore Philammon the singer, and by Hermes Autolycus the master-thief, maternal grandmother of Odysseus.1
Ovid tells how Chione, daughter of Daedalion, reached twice seven years and pleased a thousand suitors. Returning the same night from Delphi and Cyllene, Apollo and Mercury both saw her and both desired her; she bore twin sons — Philammon, famous for song and lyre, to Phoebus, and Autolycus, who inherited his father's craft of changing stolen goods from white to black and back, to Mercury.2
Hyginus names the same union and adds the variant that other poets call the woman Philonis, daughter of Daedalion. She spoke too haughtily against Diana in the hunt and was killed by her arrows; Daedalion, mad with grief for his only daughter, was changed by Apollo into the hawk that still terrifies all other birds.3
Ovid and Hyginus name her parentage and death but assign no homeland polis — the twin sons' careers belong to other lands. Residence stays deferred.4
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