Editing Io (mythology) (section)

== Family ==
In most versions of the legend, Io was the daughter of [[Inachus]],<ref>Aeschylus, ''Prometheus Bound'', 590; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.3 2.1.3]; [[Herodotus]], ''Histories'', 1.1; Ovid, ''Metamorphoses'', 1.583.</ref><ref name=OCD>{{cite book|editor-last1=Hammond|editor-first1=N. G. L.|editor-last2=Scullard|editor-first2=H. H.|title=The Oxford Classical Dictionary|date=1970|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, England|isbn=0-19-869117-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordclassicald00hamm/page/549 549]|edition=2d|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordclassicald00hamm/page/549}}</ref> though various other purported genealogies are also known. If her father was Inachus, then her mother would presumably have been Inachus' wife (and sister), the [[Oceanid]] nymph [[Melia (consort of Inachus)|Melia]], daughter of [[Oceanus]].{{CN|date=June 2024}}{{efn|For Melia as wife of Inachus see
[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)]]}}
She had the patronymic Inachis (Ἰναχίς) as daughter of Inachus.<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DI%3Aentry+group%3D3%3Aentry%3Dinachis-harpers Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Inachis]</ref>

Io's father was called Peiren in the ''[[Catalogue of Women]]'',<ref>''Catalogue of Women''. fr. 124</ref> and by [[Acusilaus]],<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.3 2.1.3]; Acusilaus, fr.12</ref> possibly a son of the elder [[Argus (mythology)|Argus]], also known as Peiras, Peiranthus or Peirasus.<ref>M.L. West, ''The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women: Its Nature, Structure, and Origins'' (Oxford, 1985) 77</ref><ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'', 2.1.3; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'', 124.</ref> Io may therefore be identical to [[Callithyia]], daughter of Peiranthus, as is suggested by [[Hesychius of Alexandria]].<ref>Hesychius of Alexandria s. v. {{lang|grc|Ὶὼ Καλλιθύεσσα}}</ref>

The 2nd century AD geographer [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] mentions another, later Io, descendant of [[Phoroneus]], daughter of [[Iasus]],<ref>Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160%3Abook%3D2%3Achapter%3D16 2.16.1]</ref> who himself was the son of [[Argus (king of Argos)|Argus]] and [[Ismene#Daughter of Asopus|Ismene]], the daughter of [[Asopus]],<ref name="2.1.3">[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.1.3 2.1.3].</ref> or of [[Triopas]] and [[Sose (mythology)|Sosis]]; Io's mother in the latter case was Leucane.<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Euripides]]' ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'', 932</ref>