Nikippe (daughter of Pelops)

Nikippe ( ancient Greek Νικίππη ) is a person of Greek mythology . She was a daughter of Pelops and Hippodameia and thus sister of Atreus and Thyestes .

According to the current genealogy , Nikippe was the wife of Sthenelos , who with her fathered Eurystheus , Alkinoe - with Diodor Alkyone - and Medusa . In Dionysius of Miletus also indirectly Iphis called as a son.

literature

• Richard Wagner : Nikippe 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.1, Leipzig 1902, column 361 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ Diodor, Bibliothèque historique. 4.12.7
2. ↑ Dionysius of Miletus in the Scholion to Apollonios Rhodios 4,223,228 names Iphis as the brother of Euristheus