Io

Seduced by Zeus and turned into a white cow to hide her from Hera.

Genealogy

Automedusa, Doris

Creusa, Eurytus, Iasus, Inachus, Iphicles, Nereus, Piren

Achaeus, Actaea, Aegialeus, Agave, Amatheia, Amphinome, Amphithoe, Amphitrite, Apseudes, Argus, Autonoe, Calypso, Ceto, Cranto, Cymo, Cymothoe, Dero, Dexamene, Dione, Doris, Doto, Dynamene, Eione, Erato, Eucrante, Eudore, Eulimene, Eumolpe, Eunice, Evagore, Galatea, Glauce, Glauconome, Halimede, Halie, Hipponoe, Hippothoe, Iaira, Ianassa, Ianira, Iphitus, Kallieneira, Kallienassa, Klymene, Kymodoke, Limnoria, Lysianassa, Maira, Melite, Mycene, Nausithoe, Nemertes, Neomeris, Nesaea, Oreithuia, Pherusa, Phoroneus, Plexaure, Polynome, Pontomedusa, Proto, Psamathe, Sao, Spio, Thetis, Thoe

Telegonus

Epaphus

Places
  1. Bosphorus
  2. Cimmerian Land
  3. Egypt
  4. Illyria
  5. Ionian Sea
  6. Mount Haemus
  7. Mycenae
  8. Nile
  9. Scythia
  10. Syria
  11. Unknown
Events
  1. Zeus seduces Io
  2. Zeus turns Io into a cow to conceal her from Hera
  3. Argus guards Io, the cow
  4. Hermes kills Argus and rescues the cow Io
  5. Io, pursued by a gadfly from Hera, comes to the Ionian gulf
  6. Io is pursued by the gadfly to Scythia
  7. Io is pursued by the gadfly to the Bosphorus
  8. Io is pursued by the gadfly to the Cimmerian Lands
  9. Io is pursued by the gadfly to Illyria
  10. Io is pursued by the gadfly to Mount Haemus
  11. Io regains human form and gives birth
  12. Io finds her son in Syria with the wife of King Byblus
  13. Io and Telegonus get married
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 1.3
  2. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 25.1
  3. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 16.1
  4. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 18.13
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