'snowy') was the daughter of Boreas, the god of the north wind, and Orithyia a daughter of Erechtheus, the king of Athens.
The girl's name Χιόνη is derived from the ancient Greek word for snow, χιών (chiṓn).
[2] Chione was the sister of Cleopatra (wife of Phineus, king of Thrace) and the Argonauts, Calaïs and Zetes.
[3] According to a late, though generally accepted tradition, Chione was the mother of Poseidon's son Eumolpus whom she threw into the ocean for fear of her father's reaction; however, Eumolpus is rescued and raised by Poseidon.
[4] Other princesses who abandoned their infants in Greek myth: