Editing Hypermnestra (section)

==Cultural depictions==
[[Ovid]] wrote a letter from Hypermnestra to Lynceus, which appears in his ''[[Heroides]]''.<ref name=":3" />

[[Geoffrey Chaucer]] wrote a ''Legend of Hypermnestra''.<ref>[http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/chaucer_review/v036/36.1aloni.pdf A Curious Error?: Geoffrey Chaucer’s Legend of Hypermnestra, The Chaucer Review, Vol 36, Number 1, 2001, accessed 2 May 2013]</ref>

[[Francesco Cavalli]] wrote ''[[Hipermestra]]'', first performed at Florence on 12 June 1658, as a [[festa teatrale]] opera.

Hypermnestra is referred to in [[John Webster]]'s tragedy '[[The White Devil]]', in a speech by the scheming courtesan Flamineo:
''"...Trust a woman? never, never... We lay''
''our souls to pawn to the devil for a little pleasure, and a woman makes''
''the bill of sale. That ever man should marry! For one Hypermnestra''
''that saved her lord and husband, forty-nine of her sisters cut their''
''husbands' throats all in one night."''

[[Charles-Hubert Gervais]] composed the opera ''[[Hypermnestre]]'', first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 3 November 1716.

[[Ignaz Holzbauer]] composed a German opera entitled ''Hypermnestra'' with a German libretto by Johann Leopold van Ghelen that was performed in [[Vienna]] in 1741.

[[Antonio Salieri]] composed the opera ''[[Les Danaïdes]]'' with a French libretto by [[François-Louis Gand Le Bland Du Roullet]] and [[Louis-Théodore de Tschudi]] in 1784, premiering in [[Paris]].