Chloris
Chloris is depicted as one of Oberon's wives in William Percy's "The Faery Pastorall" around 1600. She represents one of several fairy queens associated with Oberon in different literary traditions.
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Appears in William Percy's "The Faery Pastorall" around 1600.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Carpo, Nabote, Nereids, Cybele, Boreas, Jove, Amor, Hymen, Jealousy, Auster, Napaeae, Neptune, Muses, Zephyrus, Flora, Cupid, Three Graces, Titania, Queen Mab, Pluto, Proserpine, Gloriana, Aureola, Ares, Venus, Triton, Pan, Apollo, Mercury
- syncretized with
- Flora
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Oberon was sometimes depicted with wives of other names: Aureola in a 1591 entertainment given for Queen Elizabeth at Elvetham in Hampshire, and Chloris in William Percy's The Faery Pastorall around 1600.”
#6337 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Chloris is a nymph associated with flowers and springtime in Greek mythology.”
#27911 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“Chloris laments her fate, contrasting it to Corilla and Lirindo's happiness and expresses her desire for death, "Fortunata Corilla" (Fortunate Corilla). At Venus and Mercury's urging, Amor realizes the error of his ways and tells the truth to Chloris.”
#38047 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Zephyr, the Greek god of the west wind, gently kissing the Greek nymph Chloris, also known as her Roman equivalent Flora, the goddess of flowers.”
#45047 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free
“Chloris/Flora, the flower goddess that Zephyrus abducted and made his wife”
#45073 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-20b:free