Chaldene (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Chaldene () was the daughter of Pisidus,Etymologicum Magnum 721.43 under Solymoi the eponymous founder of Pisidia. Other variations of her name were Caldene () or Calchedonia.Antimachus in scholia on Homer's Odyssey 5.283

Family Caldene bore to Zeus the ancestral hero of the Solymi, Solymus,Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Pisidia and possibly of his sister, Milye, the local eponymous heroine of the Milyae.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Milyai In another version, Caldene has Solymus by Ares, the god of war.

Legacy Chaldene, one of the moons of the planet Jupiter was named after her.IAUC 7998: Satellites of Jupiter 2002 October 22 (naming the moon)

Notes

References 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. Online version at the Topos Text Project.