Chloris of Thebes

Chloris is attested in Greek mythographic lists and summaries as one of the fourteen children of Amphion and Niobe (the Niobids), situating her in the Theban royal household and the tragic cycle surrounding Niobe's boast and the subsequent slaying of most of her children. Some traditions and later compilers identify or conflate this Chloris with a woman named Chloris who became the wife of Neleus of Pylos; Hyginus, in listings of genealogical connections, names Periclymenus as son of Neleus and Chloris, daughter of Amphion and Niobe, reflecting one strand that integrates the Theban Chloris into Pylian lineage. Other sources (e.g., Apollodorus summaries and modern tertiary accounts) list Chloris among the Niobids without necessarily linking her to Neleus, showing variant local traditions and name-duplication common in Greek mythic repertories.

The available sources do not preserve any physical or iconographic description of Chloris of Thebes. She is known only by name and genealogical placement in lists and summaries; no surviving account in the cited materials describes her clothing, bodily features, or distinguishing attributes. Her identity in the sources is established through familial labels (daughter of Amphion and Niobe; in some traditions wife of Neleus) rather than visual depiction.

The cited materials attribute no supernatural powers or special abilities to Chloris. She functions as a mortal genealogical figure in Greek mythic narratives: a named child in the Niobid group and, in some traditions, a wife and mother within Pylian genealogy. Her role in the sources is primarily connective and memorial — preserving lineage ties between Theban and, in some accounts, Pylian houses — rather than active agency or miraculous deeds. The traditions preserve her as part of family lists (Apollodorus-style compilations; Hyginus' genealogical notes) and do not ascribe magical behavior or cultic functions.