Cameron, p. 150. This summary is found in the Homeric commentary of the twelfth-century bishop Eustathius, whose likely source was Ptolemy Chennus (O'Hara p. 173). Cameron discusses this summary in his chapter on "Bogus Citations", which argues that Sostratus, as well as the summary of his supposed lost poem, are just one of the many fabrications of Ptolemy Chennus.
Dionysus as father: Nonnus, Dionysiaca16.131–2, 33.4–11; Dionysus as father by Coronis: Nonnus, Dionysiaca48.553–556, with note: "Coronis as mother of the Charites is heard of only here; she seems to have nothing to do with Coronis the mother of Asclepios by Apollo.")
Tripp, s.v. Graces; Arafat, s.v. Charites (which adds "charm"); Grimal, s.v. Charites (which calls them "goddesses of beauty and perhaps also, in their earliest form, of the powers of vegetation."); Schachter, s.v. Charites (which says they are "goddesses who embody beauty, happiness and abundance".
Tripp, s.v. Graces; Arafat, s.v. Charites (which adds "charm"); Grimal, s.v. Charites (which calls them "goddesses of beauty and perhaps also, in their earliest form, of the powers of vegetation."); Schachter, s.v. Charites (which says they are "goddesses who embody beauty, happiness and abundance".
