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Short description: Set of mythological Greek characters

In Greek mythology, Clio (/ˈkliːoʊ/, more rarely /ˈklaɪoʊ/; Ancient Greek: Κλειώ Kleiṓ means "made famous" or "to make famous"), also spelled Cleio,[1] may refer to the following women:

  • Clio, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[2] Her name means "fame-giver".[3]
  • Clio or Cleio,[4] one of the 50 Nereids, the sea-nymph daughters of 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[5]
  • Clio, one of the Muses, daughters of Zeus and the Titan Mnemosyne.[6]
  • Cleo, one of the 50 Danaides, daughters of the Libyan king Danaus. She married and murdered her cousin-husband Asterius.[7][8]

Notes

  1. Harvey, Paul (1984). "Clio/Kleio". The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Revised 1984 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 110. ISBN 0-19-281490-7. 
  2. Virgil, Georgics 4.341
  3. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 86. ISBN 9780786471119. 
  4. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface (Latin ed. Micyllus; Scheffero; Munckerus; Staveren; Schmidt)
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  6. Apollodorus, 3.10.3; Pausanias, 3.1.3 & 3.19.4
  7. Hyginus, Fabulae 170
  8. Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 85. ISBN 9780786471119. 

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