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Nicippe

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Nicippe, also Nikippe (Ancient Greek: Νικίππη) is a name attributed to several women in Greek mythology.

Nicippe, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Antimachus.^[1]
Nicippe, daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia. She married Sthenelus and bore him Alcyone, Medusa, and Eurystheus.^[2] She is also known as Antibia^[3] or Archippe^[4]
Nicippe, a priestess of Demeter in Dotion, Thessaly. Demeter assumes her shape to try to stop Erysichthon from cutting down the sacred grove.^[5]

Also known is one apparently historical figure of this name:

Nicippe, daughter of Paseas, who dedicated a statue to Aphrodite Symmachia at the temple in Mantinea which was founded to commemorate the alliance of the Mantineans with the Romans in the Battle of Actium.^[6]

References

1. ^Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.7.8.
2. ^Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 2.4.5.
3. ^Scholia on Homer, Iliad 19.119
4. ^Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.172 & 195
5. ^Callimachus, Hymn 5 to Demeter, 42 ff
6. ^Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 9. 6

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