Rhoeo
(
Ῥοιώ).
1. A daughter of Staphylus and Chrysothemis, was beloved by Apollo. When her father discovered that she was with child, he put her in a chest, and exposed her to the waves of the sea.
The chest floated to the coast of Euboea (or Delos), where Rhoeo gave birth to Anius (
Diod. 5.62; Tzetz.
ad Lycoph. 570). Subsequently she was married to Zarex. (Tzetz.
ad Lycoph. 580.)