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Menippe (/mɪˈnɪp/; 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]

Notes

  1. Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 65. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 231. ISBN 9780786471119. 
  3. Hyginus, Fabulae Preface
  4. Hesiod, Theogony 260
  5. Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.685 ff.; Antoninus Liberalis, 25 (as cited in Nicander's Metamorphoses and Corinna's Weroia); Scholia on Homer, Iliad 18.486
  6. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities 1.28.3 (citing Hellanicus, Phoronis) = Hellanicus, fr. 4 Fowler, pp. 156–176.
  7. Tzetzes, Chiliades 1.12, line 306
  8. Valerius Flaccus, 6.370-377

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