In Greek mythology, Xenopatra (), also called Chthonopatra () was a Phthian princess who later on became the queen of Locris.
Biography Xenopatra was the daughter of King Hellen of Thessaly, the eponym of the Hellenes.Fowler 2013, p. 142; Scholia on Plato's Symposium 208d (Cufalo, pp. 108–10) [= FGrHist 4 F125 = Hellanicus fr. 125 Fowler, pp. 200–1 = FGrHist 323a F23]. Her mother was the oread Orseis (Othreis), and sister to Aeolus, Dorus, Xuthus and probably Neonus.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Dotion (pp. 118, 119) [= FGrHist 604 F3.
Chthonopatra married her uncle King Amphictyon of Locris and by him mothered Physcus, his successor.Fowler 2013, p. 142; Fowler 1998, p. 12 n. 29; Eustathius ad Iliad 277.17 Other possible children of the couple were King Itonus of ItonPausanias, 5.1.4 and an unnamed daughter who bore Cercyon by Poseidon, and Triptolemus by Rarus.Pausanias, 1.14.3 with Choerilus in his play Alope as the source
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