Hippomedusa (daughter of Danaos)
Hippomedusa ( ancient Greek Ἱππομέδουσα Hippomédusa ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of Danaos , the king of Libya . She is therefore one of the Danaids . Her mother was either Atlanteie or Phoibe , both hamadryads , with whom Danaos had nine other daughters.
At the mass wedding of the 50 daughters of Danaos with the 50 sons of Aegyptus , at which lot decided on the pairing, their husband was assigned to Alkmenor , the son of an Arab mother. Like all of her sisters with the exception of the Hypermestra , she killed her husband on their wedding night.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Hippomedusa 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 2688 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodor 2,1,5.