Editing Argonauts (section)

=== Women of Lemnos ===
The Argonauts first stopped at [[Lemnos]] where they learned that all the males had been murdered. The reason of which was as follows: for several years, the women did not honor and make offerings to [[Aphrodite]] and because of her anger, she visited them with a noisome smell. Therefore, their spouses took captive women from the neighboring country of [[Thrace]] and bedded with them. Dishonored, all the Lemnian women, except [[Hypsipyle]], were instigated by the same goddess in conspiring to kill their fathers and husbands. They then deposed King [[Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas]], who should have died along with the whole tribe of men, but was secretly spared by his daughter Hypsipyle. She put Thoas on board a ship which a storm carried to the island of [[History of Crimea|Taurica]].

In the meantime, the Argonauts sailing along, the guardian of the harbour [[Iphinoe (mythology)|Iphinoe]] saw them and announced their coming to Hypsipyle, the new queen. [[Polyxo]] who by virtue of her middle age, gave advice that she should put them under obligation to the gods of hospitality and invite them to a friendly reception. Hypsipyle fell in love with their captain Jason. They had sons, [[Euneus]] and [[Nebrophonus]] or [[Deipylus]]. The other Argonauts consorted with the Lemnian women, and their descendants were called [[Minyans]], since some among them had previously emigrated from [[Orchomenus (Boeotia)|Minyan Orchomenus]] to Iolcus. (Later, these Minyans were driven out from the island and came to [[Lacedaemon]]). The Lemnian women gave the names of the Argonauts to the children they had conceived by them. Delayed many days there, they were chided by Hercules and departed.<ref>Apollodorus, 1.9.17; Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#15 15]</ref>

But later, when the other women learned that Hypsipyle had spared her father, they tried to kill her. She fled from them, but pirates captured and took her to [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] where they sold her as a slave to King [[Lycus (mythology)|Lycus]]. (Hypsipyle reappeared years later, when the [[Argives]] marching against [[Ancient Thebes (Boeotia)|Thebes]] learned from her the way to a spring in [[Nemea]], where she served as nurse to King [[Lycurgus (of Nemea)|Lycurgus]]' son [[Opheltes]].) Her son Euneus later became king of Lemnos. In order to purify the island from blood guilt, he ordered that all Lemnian hearth-fires be put off for nine days and a new fire be brought on a ship from Apollo's altar in [[Delos]].