Nicippe
Nicippe, also Nikippe (Νικίππη) is a name attributed to several women in Greek mythology.
- Nicippe, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Antimachus.[1]
- Nicippe, daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia. She married Sthenelus and bore him Alcyone, Medusa, and Eurystheus.[2] She is also known as Antibia[3] or Archippe[4]
- Nicippe, a priestess of Demeter in Dotion, Thessaly. Demeter assumes her shape to try to stop Erysichthon from cutting down the sacred grove.[5]
Also known is one apparently historical figure of this name:
- Nicippe, daughter of Paseas, who dedicated a statue to Aphrodite Symmachia at the temple in Mantinea which was founded to commemorate the alliance of the Mantineans with the Romans in the Battle of Actium.[6]
References
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8.
- ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.4.5.
- ↑ Scholia on Iliad, 19. 119
- ↑ Tzetzes, Chiliades, 2. 172 & 195
- ↑ Callimachus, Hymn 5 to Demeter, 42 ff
- ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 9. 6
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