Editing Hypsipyle (section)

===Valerius Flaccus' ''Argonautica''===
The 1st-century AD Latin poet [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], in his ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'', gives a different reason for Aphrodite (Venus) causing the Lemnian men to reject their wives. He says it was because of the goddess' anger with her husband, the god [[Hephaestus]] (Vulcan)&mdash;who had a home on Lemnos&mdash;for his having caught her in a tryst with Ares (Mars).<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.79.xml 2.98&ndash;107], with Mozley's note.</ref> He also gives a more detailed account of Thoas' rescue and escape.<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.91.xml 2.242&ndash;303].</ref>  During the night of the massacre, Hypsipyle woke Thoas, covered his head, and took him to Dionysus' temple where she hid him.<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.91.xml 2.249&ndash;259].</ref> The next morning, Hypsipyle disguised Thoas as the temples' cult statue of Dionysus,  placed him on the ritual chariot (used to parade the statue). She then took Thoas through the streets of the city, crying aloud that the god's statue had been polluted by the night's bloody murders, and needed to be cleansed in the sea. By this subterfuge, and with the god Dionysus' help, Thoas was safely hid outside the city.<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.93.xml 2.265&ndash;280].</ref> But fearing discovery, Hypsipyle finds an old abandoned boat, in which Thoas put to sea, eventually reaching the land of the Taurians, where "Diana put a sword in his hand, and didst appoint him warden of thy cheerless altar".<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.93.xml 2.280&ndash;303].</ref> And the women of Lemnos bestow on Hypsipyle "the throne and sceptre of her father as by right".<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.97.xml 2.306&ndash;310].</ref>