Hippolyte

Family: Amazons · Role: queen · First appears: Book II 7

Life events

• Heracles captures Melanippe; Hippolyte ransoms her, and he releases her unharmed.(Book II 8 · 📍 headland of the Amazons)
  • With: Heracles Melanippe
  • “Here once when Melanippe, daughter of Ares, had, gone forth, the hero Heracles caught her by ambuscade and Hippolyte gave him her glistening girdle as her sister’s ransom, and he sent away his captive unharmed.”

Book II 7

• with Heracles (Heracles brought Hippolyte’s girdle.) “when he came hither on foot through the land of Asia bringing the girdle of warlike Hippolyte;”

Book II 8

• siblings with Melanippe “Hippolyte gave him her glistening girdle as her sister’s ransom”
• with Heracles (Hippolyte ransoms her sister Melanippe from Heracles.) “Hippolyte gave him her glistening girdle as her sister’s ransom, and he sent away his captive unharmed”
• with Heracles (Hippolyte ransomed Melanippe from Heracles.) “Hippolyte gave him her glistening girdle as her sister’s ransom”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.