Polyxo (nurse of the Hypsipyle)

Polyxo ( Greek  Πολυξώ ) is the wet nurse and friend of Queen Hypsipyle of Lemnos in Greek mythology . After their husbands were murdered, she moved the islanders to be friendly with the Argonauts in order to be able to have offspring again.

With Gaius Valerius Flaccus she is a prophetess.

swell

• Apollonios of Rhodes , Argonautika 1,668 ff
• Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 15
• Gaius Valerius Flaccus , 2,316 ff.

literature

• Otto Höfer : Polyxo 7 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2745-2747 ( digitized version ).
• Lutz Käppel : Polyxo 4. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 10, Metzler, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-476-01480-0 , column 85.