Hippothoe (daughter of Mestor)
Hippothoë ( Greek Ἱπποθόη ) is in Greek mythology a daughter of the son of Perseus Mestor , king of Mycenae , and of Lysidice , the daughter of the Elean king Pelops .
Hippothoë, descended from Zeus through her grandfather Perseus , was kidnapped and impregnated by his brother Poseidon , who had fallen in love with her, to an island of the Echinades . She bore him Taphios , the father of Pterelaos and founder of the city of Taphos , probably located on today's island of Meganisi .
Following other traditions, Pterelaus was the son of Hippothoë and this in turn was the father of Taphios or Taphos, or Pterelaos was her husband.
literature
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Hippothoe 5 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Col. 2692 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 4, 5.
- ↑ Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 747.
- ↑ Scholion to Homer , Iliad 19:116.