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, 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, 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, 2.4.9. Lysidice with her other sisters, except for one,Pausanias, 9.27.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51 all laid with the hero in a night,Pausanias, 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, f.n. 51 or for 50 daysApollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224 as what their father strongly desired it to be.Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3 Lysidice bore Heracles a son, Teles.Apollodorus, 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. She had six brothers namely: Periphas, Agenor, Euchenor, Klymenos, Xouthos, Macareus, and five sisters: Klymene, Kallithyia, Eurygone, Kanake and an unnamed one. According to various accounts, Aeolus yoked in marriage his sons and daughters, including Lysidike, in order to preserve concord and affection among them.Homer, Odyssey 10.6 & 11–12

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