Lysippe

This article is about various figures in Greek mythology. For the worm genus, see Ampharetinae. For the butterfly, see Argynnis ruslana lysippe. For the hymenopteran insect, see Aprostocetus.

Lysippe (/laɪˈsɪpi/; Ancient Greek: Λυσίππη Lusíppē) is the name of several different women in Greek mythology:

• Lysippe, the Amazon mother of the river god Tanais.^[1][2]
• Lysippe, other name for Cydippe, daughter of King Ormenus of Rhodes and wife of her uncle Cercaphus.^[3]
• Lysippe, the daughter of Proetus and Stheneboea. Along with her sisters Iphinoe and Iphianassa, she was driven mad, believing herself to be a cow. This was either because they would not receive the rites of Dionysus, or they scorned the divinity of Hera. They also lost their beauty: they were afflicted with skin diseases and their hair dropped out. They were cured by Melampus, the son of Amythaon.^[4]
• Lysippe, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede^[5] or by one of his many wives.^[6] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,^[7] Lysippe with her other sisters, except for one,^[8] all laid with the hero in a night,^[9] a week^[10] or for 50 days^[11] as what their father strongly desired it to be.^[12] Lysippe bore Heracles a son, Erasippus.^[13]
• Lysippe, wife of Prolaus of Elis.^[14]
• Lysippe, possible name for the wife of Talaus.^[15]

Notes

1. Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 19
2. Grimal, p. 431
3. Footnote 92 as cited in Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.36
4. Apollodorus, 2.2.2; Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 18 (1914 Loeb edition)
5. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
6. Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
7. Apollodorus, 2.4.9
8. Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
9. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
10. Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
11. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
12. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
13. Apollodorus, 2.7.8
14. Pausanias, 5.2.4
15. Scholia on Plato, p. 419 ed. Bekker (937, 26 ed. Baiter)

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.

• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

• Hesiod, Catalogue of Women from Homeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homerica translated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914. Online version at theio.com
• Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Morals translated from the Greek by several hands. Corrected and revised by. William W. Goodwin, PH. D. Boston. Little, Brown, and Company. Cambridge. Press Of John Wilson and son. 1874. 5. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder, The Natural History. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A. London. Taylor and Francis, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. 1855. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia. Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Lipsiae. Teubner. 1906. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com

Further reading

• Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology, Wiley-Blackwell, 1996, ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. "Tanais"
• Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Lysippe"