Euxippe (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Euxippe (Ancient Greek: Εὐξίππη) was the wife of Acraepheus, founder of Acraephnium, and became the mother of Ptous, eponym of Mt. Ptous in Boeotia.[1][2] Otherwise, the latter was also called the son of Athamas and Themisto[3][4][5] or Apollo and Zeuxippe, a daughter of Athamas.[6]

  1. ^ Herodian 1.112 & 337
  2. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Akraiphia
  3. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.2
  4. ^ Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.23.6 citing Asius
  5. ^ Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1144
  6. ^ Thus scholia on Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 9.23.6, with reference to Pindar. The relevant passage in Stephanus in fact reads: "Acraephia... was founded either by Athamas or by Acraepheus, son of Apollo. The mountain is named after Ptous, son of the aforesaid individual (τοῦ αὐτοῦ) and Euxippe". The version given in scholia on Pausanias has prompted several scholars to emend "Euxippe" to "Zeuxippe", and to assume that "τοῦ αὐτοῦ" refers to Apollo rather than Acraepheus. Such an interpretation, however, has been contested on the strength of the facts that Stephanus must have closely followed Herodianus, where the parents' names are unambiguously Acraepheus and Euxippe, and that the passage in scholia on Pausanias allows for an alternate understanding that doesn't necessarily make Apollo and Zeuxippe parents of Ptous. See Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band XXIII, Halbband 46, Psamathe-Pyramiden (1959), s. 1890.