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Lysidice or Lysidike (Ancient Greek: Λυσιδίκη) is the name of several women in Greek mythology.

Lysidice, daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia. She married Mestor and became the mother of Hippothoe.^[1] She was also sometimes said to be the mother of Alcmene, by Electryon.^[2]
Lysidice, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede^[3] or by one of his many wives.^[4] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,^[5] Lysidice with her other sisters, except for one,^[6] all laid with the hero in a night,^[7] a week^[8] or for 50 days^[9] as what their father strongly desired it to be.^[10] Lysidice bore Heracles a son, Teles.^[11]
Lysidice, daughter of Coronus, mother of Philaeus by Ajax the Great.^[12]
Lysidice of Athens, one of the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur.
Lysidice, wife of Borus and mother of Penthilus.^[13]
Lysidice, one of the daughters of King Aeolus of Lipara, the keeper of the winds.^[14] She had six brothers namely: Periphas, Agenor, Euchenor, Klymenos, Xouthos, Macareus, and five sisters: Klymene, Kallithyia, Eurygone, Kanake and an unnamed one.^[15] According to various accounts, Aeolus yoked in marriage his sons and daughters, including Lysidike, in order to preserve concord and affection among them.^[16]^[17]

^ Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 7.27 (49); Apollodorus, 2.4.5; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 932
^ Plutarch, Theseus 7
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
^ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Philaidai; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 53
^ Scholia on Plato, p. 376 for the latter version
^ Tzetzes, John (2019). Allegories of the Odyssey. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam J.; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 147, 10.42. ISBN 978-0-674-23837-4.
^ Tzetzes, John (2019). Allegories of the Odyssey. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam J.; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 147, 10.39–42. ISBN 978-0-674-23837-4.
^ Tzetzes, John (2019). Allegories of the Odyssey. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam J.; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 147, 10.43–44. ISBN 978-0-674-23837-4.
^ Homer, Odyssey 10.6 & 11–12