Hypsipyle
Sign in to savethumb|Hypsipyle saving Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas. In Greek mythology, Hypsipyle () was a queen of Lemnos, and the daughter of King Thoas of Lemnos, and the granddaughter of Dionysus and Ariadne. When the women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas. She ruled Lemnos when the Argonauts visited the island, and had two sons by Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. Later the women of Lemnos discovered that Thoas had been saved by Hypsipyle and she was sold as a slave to Lycurgus, the king of Nemea, where she became the nurse of the king's infant son Ophelte
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17 sectionsContents
- Family
- The Lemnian crime and the rescue of Thoas
- ''Hypsipyle''
- Apollonius of Rhodes' ''Argonautica''
- Valerius Flaccus' ''Argonautica''
- Other accounts
- Affair with Jason
- Apollonius of Rhodes' ''Argonautica''
- Later accounts
- Nurse of Opheltes
- ''Hypsipyle''
- Hyginus
- The ''Thebaid''
- Apollodorus
- In literature
- Notes
- References
thumb|Hypsipyle saving Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas. In Greek mythology, Hypsipyle () was a queen of Lemnos, and the daughter of King Thoas of Lemnos, and the granddaughter of Dionysus and Ariadne. When the women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas. She ruled Lemnos when the Argonauts visited the island, and had two sons by Jason, the leader of the Argonauts. Later the women of Lemnos discovered that Thoas had been saved by Hypsipyle and she was sold as a slave to Lycurgus, the king of Nemea, where she became the nurse of the king's infant son Opheltes, who was killed by a serpent while in her care. She is eventually freed from her servitude by her sons.
==Family== Hypsipyle's father was Thoas, who was the son of Dionysus and Ariadne. According to the Iliad, Hypsipyle was the mother, by Jason, of Euneus. Later sources say that Hypsipyle had, in addition to Euneus, a second son by Jason. In Euripides' partially preserved play Hypsipyle, she and Jason had twin sons: Euneus and Thoas. According to Apollodorus, the second son was Nebrophonus, while according to Hyginus, the second son was Deipylus, Ovid says simply that Hypsipyle bore Jason twins, without naming them.