Hippolyte

Also known as: Glauce / Melanippe · Family: Amazons · Role: Amazon · First appears: Apollodorus, Epitome 1

Life events

• Hercules kills Hippolyte and takes her belt.(Apollodorus, Library 2.5 · 📍 Themiscyra)
  • With: Heracles
  • “But when Hercules saw them in arms, he suspected treachery, and killing Hippolyte stripped her of her belt.”

Apollodorus, Epitome 1

• with Theseus (interaction) “but Simonides calls her Hippolyte.”
• married with Theseus “Simonides calls her Hippolyte. Wherefore the Amazons marched against Athens”

Apollodorus, Epitome 5

• with Penthesilia (Penthesilia accidentally killed Hippolyte.) “accidentally killed Hippolyte and was purified by Priam.”
• child: Hippolytus “Hippolyte was the mother of Hippolytus;”
• with Theseus (One account says Theseus killed Hippolyte.) “she was killed, whether involuntarily by her ally Penthesilia, or by Theseus, or because his men, seeing the threatening attitude of the Amazons, hastily closed the doors and so intercepted and slew her.”

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