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