Editing Hypsipyle (section)

===Apollonius of Rhodes' ''Argonautica''===
The earliest extant telling of the story in detail occurs in the 3rd-century BC ''[[Argonautica]]'' by [[Apollonius of Rhodes]].<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/44/mode/2up 1.609-630].</ref> According to this account, the women of Lemnos had long neglected the worship of [[Aphrodite]], and because of this the goddess caused their husbands to spurn them in favor of captive Thracian women. In revenge, the women massacred all the males on the island, except for the "aged" Thoas, whom Hypsipyle put into a "hollow chest," setting him adrift on the open sea. Fishermen pulled him ashore on the island of [[Sicinus]]. The Lemnian women took over all the previous work of the men, cattle-herding, plowing, and warfare.