ABSTRACT
Before making advances to her Apollo preferred to wait until nightfall (and then he approached in the guise of an old woman), but Hermes put her to sleep and raped her then and there. She bore twins, Autolycus to Hermes, and Philammon to Apollo. Hermes passed on his expertise in thieving to his son and Philammon too inherited his father’s gift, becoming an accomplished musician. Chione, however, was induced by her beauty and success to compare herself with Artemis, to the latter’s disadvantage; whereupon the goddess shot and killed her with an arrow. Daedalion was so grieved by his daughter’s death that he flung himself down from a peak of Mount Parnassus and was transformed by Apollo into a hawk.
