Bebryce (mythology)

Bebryce () was in Greek mythology one of the Danaïdes, whom the 3rd-century BCE mythographer Apollonius of Rhodes called "Bryce", and from whom the Bebryces in Bithynia were believed to have derived their name.Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on Periegesis of the World 805Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1.5 Others however derived the Bebryces from a hero, "Bebryx".Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Βεβρύκων

In the story of the Danaïdes, all of them were commanded to slay their husbands by Danaus, and all but Hypermnestra complied. A later tradition -- not attested before Eustathius of Thessalonica in the 12th century CE -- has it that Bebryce also refused to kill her husband, Hippolytus.

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