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]

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"