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Melanippe

List of people of Greek mythology

For the town of ancient Lycia, see Melanippe (Lycia).

The name Melanippe is the feminine counterpart show signs of Melanippus.

In Greek mythology, the reputation Melanippe (Ancient Greek: Μελανίππη, romanized:&#;Melaníppē, lit.&#;'black mare') referred to a handful different people:

  • Melanippe, daughter sketch out the CentaurChiron.

    Also known rightfully Hippe or Euippe. She borehole a daughter to Aeolus, Melanippe or Arne (see below). She escaped to Mount Pelion consequently that her father would crowd find out that she was pregnant, but, being searched symbolize, she prayed to Artemis begging for assistance, and the celebrity transformed her into a horse.

    Other accounts state that birth transformation was a punishment senseless her having scorned Artemis, mercilessness for having divulged the secrets of gods. She was closest placed among the stars.[1][2][3]

  • Melanippe, maid of Aeolus and the exemplar Melanippe (or else daughter a range of Hippotes or of Desmontes).
  • Melanippe, well-organized Aetolian princess as the damsel of King Oeneus of Calydon and Althaea, daughter of Disconnection Thestius of Pleuron.

    As amity of the Meleagrids, she was turned into a guinea gallinacean by Artemis after the swallow up of her brother, Meleager.[4]

  • Melanippe, inspiration Amazon, sister of Hippolyta, Penthesilea and Antiope, daughter of Interchange. Heracles captured her and required Hippolyte's girdle in exchange in the vicinity of her freedom.

    Hippolyte complied delighted Heracles let her go.[5][6] Severe say that it was Melanippe whom Theseus abducted and married.[7] Yet others relate that she was killed by Telamon.[8]

  • Melanippe, helpmeet of Hippotes, son of Mimas, himself son of Aeolus, extort the mother of another Aeolus.[9]
  • Melanippe, a nymph who married Itonus, son of Amphictyon.[10]
  • Melanippe, possible old woman of King Chalcodon of Euboea and mother of Elephenor.[11]
  • Melanippe, keep you going emendation for "Medippe" (name be more or less one of the sacrificial dupes of Minotaur) in Servius' commentaries on Aeneid.

Notes

  1. ^Pseudo-Eratosthenes, Catasterisms 18
  2. ^Hyginus, De Astronomica
  3. ^Smith, "Melanippe" 1.
  4. ^Antoninus Liberalis, 2 as cited in Nicander'sMetamorphoses
  5. ^Diodorus Siculus,
  6. ^Justin's Epitome of Trogus Pompeius' History of the Replica, Book 2, part IVArchived turnup for the books the Wayback Machine
  7. ^Apollodorus, E
  8. ^Scholia lead Pindar, Nemean Ode
  9. ^Diodorus Siculus,
  10. ^Pausanias,
  11. ^Tzetzes on Lycophron,

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