Lysippe (; Ancient Greek: Λυσίππη Lusíppē) is the name of several different women in Greek mythology:
- Lysippe, the Amazon mother of the river god Tanais.[1][2]
- Lysippe, other name for Cydippe, daughter of King Ormenus of Rhodes and wife of her uncle Cercaphus.[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, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[5] or by one of his many wives.[6] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[7] Lysippe with her other sisters, except for one,[8] all laid with the hero in a night,[9] a week[10] or for 50 days[11] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[12] Lysippe bore Heracles a son, Erasippus.[13]
- Lysippe, wife of Prolaus of Elis.[14]
- Lysippe, possible name for the wife of Talaus.[15]
- ^ Pseudo-Plutarch, De fluviis 19
- ^ Grimal, p. 431
- ^ Footnote 92 as cited in Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 35.36
- ^ Apollodorus, 2.2.2; Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 18 (1914 Loeb edition)
- ^ 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
- ^ Pausanias, 5.2.4
- ^ Scholia on Plato, p. 419 ed. Bekker (937, 26 ed. Baiter)