Menippe (mythology)
Menippe (/mɪˈnɪpiː/; Ancient Greek: Μενίππη Menippê means 'the courageous mare'[1] or 'sipper'[2]) in Greek mythology may refer to the following women:
- Menippe, one of the 3,000 Oceanides, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[3]
- Menippe, the "divine" Nereid,[2] one of the 50 marine-nymph daughters of the 'Old Man of the Sea' Nereus and the Oceanid Doris.[4]
- Menippe, daughter of Orion,[5] see Menippe and Metioche
- Menippe, a Thessalian naiad daughter of the river-god Peneus. By Pelasgus, she became the mother of Phrastor, who emigrated to Italy and there became the king of the Tyrrhenians.[6]
- Menippe, daughter of Thamyris and mother of Orpheus by Oeagrus.[7]
- Menippe, one of the Amazons. She fought in Aeetes' army against the troops of Perses.[8]
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Notes
- Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 65.
- Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 231. ISBN 9780786471119.
- Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
- Hesiod, Theogony 260
- Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.685 ff.; Antoninus Liberalis, 25 (as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses and Corinna's Weroia); Scholia on Homer, Iliad 18.486
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.28.3 (citing Hellanicus, Phoronis) = Hellanicus, fr. 4 Fowler, pp. 156–176.
- Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.12, line 306
- Valerius Flaccus, 6.370-377
References
- Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica translated by Mozley, J H. Loeb Classical Library Volume 286. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. Online version at theio.com.
- Gaius Valerius Flaccus, Argonauticon. Otto Kramer. Leipzig. Teubner. 1913. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Kerényi, Carl, The Gods of the Greeks, Thames and Hudson, London, 1951.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book I translated by Ana Untila from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com
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