Menippe (mythology)
Menippe (/mɪˈnɪpiː/; Ancient Greek: Μενίππη) in Greek mythology may refer to the following women:
- Menippe, one of the Oceanides[1]
- Menippe, one of the Nereids[2]
- Menippe, daughter of Orion,[3] see Menippe and Metioche
- Menippe, a Thessalian naiad daughter of Peneus, mother of Phrastor by Pelasgus.[4]
- Menippe, one of the Amazons. She fought in Aeetes' army against the troops of Perses.[5]
- Menippe, daughter of Thamyris and mother of Orpheus by Oeagrus.[6]
References
- Hyginus. Fabulae
- Hesiod, Theogony 240 ff.
- Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13. 685 ff, Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 25, Scholia on Homer, Iliad, 18. 486
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.28.3 (citing Hellanicus, Phoronis) = Hellanicus fr. 4 Fowler, pp. 156–176.
- Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6. 370-377
- John Tzetzes. Chiliades, 1.12 line 306
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