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.Scholiast on Pindar, Olympian Odes 7.27 (49); Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.5 2.4.5]; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 932 She was also sometimes said to be the mother of Alcmene, by Electryon.Plutarch, Theseus 7
- Lysidice, a Thespian princess as one of the 50 daughters of King Thespius and MegamedeApollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.10 2.4.10]; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.222 or by one of his many wives.Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.2 When Heracles hunted and ultimately slayed the Cithaeronian lion,Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.9 2.4.9]. Lysidice with her other sisters, except for one,Pausanias, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.27.6 9.27.6]; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#note51 f.n. 51] all laid with the hero in a night,Pausanias, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:9.27.6 9.27.6–7]; Gregorius Nazianzenus, Orat. IV, Contra Julianum I (Migne S. Gr. 35.661) a weekAthenaeus, 13.4 with Herodorus as the authority; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#note51 f.n. 51] or for 50 daysApollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.10 2.4.10]; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades [http://www.theoi.com/Text/TzetzesChiliades2.html 2.224] as what their father strongly desired it to be.Apollodorus, [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:2.4.10 2.4.10]; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3 Lysidice bore Heracles a son, Teles.Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.8&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=0:chapter=0&highlight=Lysidice 2.7.8]
- Lysidice, daughter of Coronus, mother of Philaeus by Ajax the Great.Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Philaidai; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 53
- Lysidice of Athens, one of the would-be sacrificial victims of Minotaur.
- Lysidice, wife of Borus and mother of Penthilus.Scholia on Plato, p. 376 for the latter version
- Lysidice, one of the daughters of King Aeolus of Lipara, the keeper of the winds.{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Odyssey|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2019|isbn=978-0-674-23837-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=147, 10.42|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam J.|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}} She had six brothers namely: Periphas, Agenor, Euchenor, Klymenos, Xouthos, Macareus, and five sisters: Klymene, Kallithyia, Eurygone, Kanake and an unnamed one.{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Odyssey|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2019|isbn=978-0-674-23837-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=147, 10.39–42|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam J.|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}} According to various accounts, Aeolus yoked in marriage his sons and daughters, including Lysidike, in order to preserve concord and affection among them.{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Odyssey|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2019|isbn=978-0-674-23837-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=147, 10.43–44|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam J.|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}Homer, Odyssey 10.6 & 11–12
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