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{{Greek myth (aquatic nymphs)}}In [[Religion:Greek mythology|Greek mythology]], '''Chios''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|aɪ|.|ɒ|s}}; [[Social:Ancient Greek|Ancient Greek]]: Χίος) may refer to two possible eponyms of the island of Chios:
* Chios, one of the [[Unsolved:Oceanids|Oceanids]] as a daughter of the Titan [[Religion:Oceanus|Oceanus]] possibly by his sister-wife, Tethys.<ref>Hecataeus of Miletus, fr. 18 Fowler = ''FGrHist'' 1 F 141</ref>
* Chios, son of [[Religion:Poseidon|Poseidon]] and an unnamed Chian [[Unsolved:Nymph|nymph]]. He received his name from the heavy snowfall that occurred while his mother was in labour (cf. Ancient Greek χιών ''chiōn'' "snow").<ref>Pausanias, 7.4.8</ref>

The island could as well have taken its name from the nymph [[Unsolved:Chione (daughter of Boreas)|Chione]], or simply from the snowy weather.<ref>Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. ''Khios''</ref><ref>Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia'' 5.38</ref>

==Notes==
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== References ==

* Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
* Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Pliny the Elder, ''The Natural History.'' John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0137 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Pliny the Elder, ''Naturalis Historia.'' Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0138 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Stephanus of Byzantium, ''Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,'' edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]




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