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Encyclopedia > Nicippe

Nicippe is the name of two women in Greek mythology The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ...

  1. Nicippe one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Antimachus. [1]
  1. Nicippe, daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia. She married Sthenelus and bore him Alcyone, Medusa, and Eurystheus. [2]

To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Hercules, a Roman bronze (Louvre Museum) For other uses, see Heracles (disambiguation). ... Antimachus may refer to these historical persons: Antimachus I, a Graeco-Bactrian king. ... In Greek mythology, Pelops (Greek Πέλοψ, from pelios: dark; and ops: face, eye) was venerated at Olympia, where his cult developed into the founding myth of the Olympic Games, the most important expression of unity, not only for the Peloponnesus, land of Pelops, but for all Hellenes. ... Hippodamia, also Hippodamea, was a daughter of King Oenomaus and mother of Thyestes, Atreus, and Pittheus, Alacathous by Pelops. ... In Greek mythology, Sthenelus refers to four different people. ... This article is about one figure of Ancient Greek mythology. ... In Greek mythology, Eurystheus was king of Tiryns, one of three Mycenaean strongholds in the Argolid: Sthenelus was his father and the horsewoman Nykippe his mother, and he was a grandson of the hero Perseus, as was his opponent Heracles. ...

References

  1. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 2.7.8 [1]
  2. ^ Apollodorus, Library, 2.4.5 [2]


 

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