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In
Greek mythology , Hippothoe (
Ancient Greek : Ἱπποθόη Hippothoê means 'swift as a mare'
[1] ) is the name of five distinct characters.
Hippothoe, the "lovely"
Nereid and one of the 50 marine-
nymph daughters of the '
Old Man of the Sea '
Nereus and the
Oceanid
Doris .
[2] Her name means running horses (i.e. waves).
[3]
Hippothoe, a
Libyan princess as one of the
Danaïdes , daughters of King
Danaus . She married and killed her cousin
Obrimus , son of King
Aegyptus of
Egypt .
[4]
Hippothoe, daughter of
Mestor , son of
Perseus , and of
Lysidice , daughter of
Pelops .
Poseidon abducted Hippothoe from her family and took her to the
Echinades islands. There, he sired
Taphius who later founded the city of Taphos.
[5]
Hippothoe, one of the
Peliades , daughters of
Pelias , King of
Iolcus . Her mother was either
Anaxibia , daughter of
Bias ,
[6] or
Phylomache , one of the
Niobids .
[7]
Hippothoe, the 'fierce-souled'
Amazon who fought with their queen,
Penthesilea at
Troy .
[8] She was killed by
Achilles .
[9]
[10]
Hippothoe is also the scientific name of
Lycaena hippothoe , the "Purple-edged Copper" butterfly.
[11]
Notes
^
Kerényi , Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks . London:
Thames and Hudson . p. 65.
^
Hesiod ,
Theogony 251;
Apollodorus , 1.2.7
^ Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology . McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 181.
ISBN
9780786471119 .
^
Hyginus , Fabulae 170
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.5
^ Apollodorus, 1.9.10
^ Hyginus, Fabulae 24
^ Hyginus, Fabulae 163;
Quintus Smyrnaeus , 1.44;
Tzetzes , Posthomerica 176
^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, 1.532
^
"Brave Women Warriors Of Greek Myth: An Amazon Roster" . www.whoosh.org . Retrieved 2021-04-16 .
^
"Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa" . www.leps.it . Retrieved 2019-09-20 .
References
Apollodorus , The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
ISBN
0-674-99135-4 .
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Gaius Julius Hyginus , Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies.
Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Hesiod , Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
Kerényi, Carl , The Gods of the Greeks , Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
Quintus Smyrnaeus , The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913.
Online version at theio.com
Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy . Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913.
Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library .
Tzetzes, John Posthomerica translated by Ana Untila.