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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

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