Lysidice (mythology)

Lysidice or Lysidike (Ancient Greek: Λυσιδίκη) is the name of several women in Greek mythology.

• Lysidice, daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia. She married Mestor and became the mother of Hippothoe.^[1] She was also sometimes said to be the mother of Alcmene, by Electryon.^[2]
• Lysidice, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and Megamede^[3] or by one of his many wives.^[4] When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,^[5] Lysidice with her other sisters, except for one,^[6] all laid with the hero in a night,^[7] a week^[8] or for 50 days^[9] as what their father strongly desired it to be.^[10] Lysidice bore Heracles a son, Teles.^[11]
• Lysidice, daughter of Coronus, mother of Philaeus by Ajax the Great.^[12]
• Lysidice of Athens, one of the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur.
• Lysidice, wife of Borus and mother of Penthilus.^[13]
• Lysidice, one of the daughters of King Aeolus of Lipara, the keeper of the winds.^[14] She had six brothers namely: Periphas, Agenor, Euchenor, Klymenos, Xouthos, Macareus, and five sisters: Klymene, Kallithyia, Eurygone, Kanake and an unnamed one.^[15] According to various accounts, Aeolus yoked in marriage his sons and daughters, including Lysidike, in order to preserve concord and affection among them.^[16][17]