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]

Notes

1. Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 7.27 (49); Apollodorus, 2.4.5; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 932
2. Plutarch, Theseus 7
3. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222
4. Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2
5. Apollodorus, 2.4.9.
6. Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
7. Pausanias, 9.27.6–7; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661)
8. Athenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51
9. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224
10. Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3
11. Apollodorus, 2.7.8
12. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Philaidai; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 53
13. Scholia on Plato, p. 376 for the latter version
14. Tzetzes, John (2019). Allegories of the Odyssey. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam J.; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 147, 10.42. ISBN 978-0-674-23837-4.
15. Tzetzes, John (2019). Allegories of the Odyssey. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam J.; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 147, 10.39–42. ISBN 978-0-674-23837-4.
16. Tzetzes, John (2019). Allegories of the Odyssey. Translated by Goldwyn, Adam J.; Kokkini, Dimitra. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. pp. 147, 10.43–44. ISBN 978-0-674-23837-4.
17. Homer, Odyssey 10.6 & 11–12

References

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• Athenaeus of Naucratis, The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned. London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Athenaeus of Naucratis, Deipnosophistae. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
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• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Tzetzes, John, Allegories of the Odyssey translated by Goldwyn, Adam J. and Kokkini, Dimitra. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, Harvard University Press, 2015. ISBN 978-0-674-96785-4
• Tzetzes, John, Book of Histories, Book II-IV translated by Gary Berkowitz from the original Greek of T. Kiessling's edition of 1826. Online version at theio.com.