Hypsipyle

Family: Lemnos · Role: nurse and bondwoman · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.9

Life events

• Opheltes is abandoned and killed by a serpent.(Apollodorus, Library 3.6 · 📍 Nemea)
  • With: Opheltes
  • “But while she showed the spring, the abandoned boy was killed by a serpent.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• courtship with Jason “Hypsipyle bedded with Jason and bore sons, Euneus and Nebrophonus.”
• child: Euneus “Hypsipyle bedded with Jason and bore sons, Euneus and Nebrophonus.”
• child: Nebrophonus “Hypsipyle bedded with Jason and bore sons, Euneus and Nebrophonus.”
• child: Thoas “Hypsipyle alone saved her father Thoas by hiding him.”
• married with Jason “Hypsipyle bedded with Jason and bore sons, Euneus and Nebrophonus.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.6

• ward: Opheltes “Hypsipyle showed them the way to a spring, leaving behind an infant boy Opheltes, whom she nursed”
• employer: Lycurgus “wherefore she served in the house of Lycurgus as a purchased bondwoman.”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.