Menippe (mythology)

Menippe /mᵻˈnɪpi/ (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]

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, The Roman Antiquities 1.28
↑ Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6. 370-377

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