Lysippe

Role: daughter of Proetus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.2

When Lysippe, daughter of Proetus and Stheneboea, grew up, she went mad and wandered throughout Argos with her sisters Iphinoe and Iphianassa. Hesiod attributed their madness to their refusal to accept the rites of Dionysus, while Acusilaus said they had disparaged the wooden image of Hera. After Iphinoe died in the pursuit, Lysippe and Iphianassa were purified, recovered their wits, and were given in marriage by Proetus to Melampus and Bias; Lysippe was also named as parent of Erasippus.

Relationship record

Life events

Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa went mad and wandered throughout Argos.(Apollodorus, Library 2.2 · 📍 the whole Argive land)
- With: Iphinoe Iphianassa
- “Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea. When these damsels were grown up, they went mad”

Apollodorus, Library 2.2

parent: Proetus “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
parent: Stheneboea “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
siblings with Iphinoe “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
siblings with Iphianassa “and Proetus had daughters, Lysippe, Iphinoe, and Iphianassa, by Stheneboea.”
married with Melampus “In the pursuit Iphinoe, the eldest of the daughters, expired; but the others were lucky enough to be purified and so to recover their wits. Proetus gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias,”
married with Bias “In the pursuit Iphinoe, the eldest of the daughters, expired; but the others were lucky enough to be purified and so to recover their wits. Proetus gave them in marriage to Melampus and Bias,”
with Hesiod (Hesiod gives an account of the cause of the daughters' madness.) “they went mad, according to Hesiod, because they would not accept the rites of Dionysus”
with Dionysus (Lysippe refused the rites of Dionysus.) “because they would not accept the rites of Dionysus”
with Acusilaus (Acusilaus gives an account of the cause of the daughters' madness.) “but according to Acusilaus, because they disparaged the wooden image of Hera”
with Hera (interaction) “they disparaged the wooden image of Hera”

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

child: Erasippus “by Lysippe he had Erasippus”

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