Melanippe

Family: Amazons · Role: Amazon · First appears: Book II 8

Life events

• Heracles captures Melanippe; Hippolyte ransoms her, and he releases her unharmed.(Book II 8 · 📍 headland of the Amazons)
  • With: Heracles Hippolyte
  • “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 8

• enemies with Heracles “when Melanippe, daughter of Ares, had, gone forth, the hero Heracles caught her by ambuscade”
• siblings with Hippolyte “Hippolyte gave him her glistening girdle as her sister’s ransom”
• parent: Ares “when Melanippe, daughter of Ares, had, gone forth”
• parent: Harmonia “for by race they were the daughters of Ares and the nymph Harmonia, who bare to Ares war-loving maids”

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