Nicippe

Nicippe, also Nikippe (Ancient Greek: 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

1. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8.
2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.4.5.
3. Scholia on Homer, Iliad 19.119
4. Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.172 & 195
5. Callimachus, Hymn 5 to Demeter, 42 ff
6. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 9. 6