Nicippe

Nicippe, also Nikippe (Ancient Greek: Νικίππη) is a name attributed to several women in Greek mythology.

Also known is one apparently historical figure of this name:

  • Nicippe, daughter of Paseas, who dedicated a statue to Aphrodite Symmachia at the temple in Mantinea which was founded to commemorate the alliance of the Mantineans with the Romans in the Battle of Actium.[14]
  1. ^ Callimachus, Hymn 5 to Demeter 42 ff.
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.5
  3. ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 19.119
  4. ^ Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.172 & 195
  5. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
  6. ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
  7. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.9
  8. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  9. ^ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
  10. ^ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  11. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
  12. ^ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
  13. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.8
  14. ^ Pausanias, 8.9.6