Lysippe

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

• Lysippe, daughter of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Erasippus.[1]
• Lysippe, the Amazon mother of the river god Tanais.[2][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, wife of Prolaus of Elis.[5]
• Lysippe, possible name for the wife of Talaus.[6]
• Lysippe, other name for Cydippe, daughter of King Ormenus of Rhodes and wife of her uncle Cercaphus.[7]

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.

Notes

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 2.7.8
2. Pseudo-Plutarch. De fluviis, xiv
3. Grimal, p. 431
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library 2.2.2; Hesiod, Catalogues of Women, Fragment 18 (1914 Loeb edition)
5. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 5. 2. 4
6. Scholia on Plato, p. 419 ed. Bekker (937, 26 ed. Baiter)
7. Footnote 92 as cited in Pliny the Elder. The Natural History, 35.36

References

• 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"