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Hippo (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Hippo (Ancient Greek: Ἱππώ or Ἵππωτος Hippô means 'horse'[1] or 'like a swift current'[2]) may refer to the following personages:

  • Hippo, one of the 3,000 Oceanids, water-nymph daughters of the Titans Oceanus and his sister-spouse Tethys.[2][3]
  • Hippo, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede[4] or by one of his many wives.[5] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,[6] Hippo with her other sisters, except for one,[7] all laid with the hero in a night,[8] a week[9] or for 50 days[10] as what their father strongly desired it to be.[11] Hippo bore Heracles a son, Capylus.[12]

Notes

  1. ↑ Kerényi, Carl (1951). The Gods of the Greeks. London: Thames and Hudson. pp. 41. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bane, Theresa (2013). Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology. McFarland, Incorporated, Publishers. p. 180. ISBN 9780786471119. 
  3. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 351
  4. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
  5. ↑ Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
  6. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.4.9
  7. ↑ Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  8. ↑ Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
  9. ↑ Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
  10. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
  11. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
  12. ↑ Apollodorus, 2.7.8

References

  • Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
  • Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com




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