Chloris’s Family Tree

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Family

• Zephyrus(spouse)— Marriage

  Zephyrus abducted the nymph Chloris and made her his wife, granting her dominion over flowers as a wedding gift. Their union was an aetiological myth for the arrival of spring.

Equivalent to

• Flora(Roman)

  Chloris was identified with the Roman goddess Flora. Ovid's Fasti presents the transformation as literal: the Greek nymph became the Roman deity through her marriage to Zephyrus.

Associated with

• Horae

  The Horae tended the flower garden of Chloris, watering and arranging the blossoms that the nymph scattered over the earth. In Ovid's Fasti, Chloris describes her garden as maintained by the Seasons.

• Zephyrus

  Zephyrus abducted the nymph Chloris from a meadow and granted her dominion over flowers. Their union was the mythological origin of spring — when the west wind blows, flowers bloom in Chloris's wake.