Editing Hypsipyle (section)

===Apollonius of Rhodes' ''Argonautica''===
The first complete account of the Argonauts encounter with Hypsipyle on Lemnos is given in [[Apollonius of Rhodes]]' ''[[Argonautica]]''. According to Apollonius of Rhodes' version of the story, when the Argonauts first arrive, Hypsipyle and the women, fearing that the Argonauts' were Thracians coming to attack them, put on armour and rush to the beach, to defend their island.<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.55.xml 1.630&ndash;639].</ref> However the Argonauts herald [[Aethalides]] was able to persuade Hypsipyle to allow the Argonauts to stay for one night on the island.<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.55.xml 1.650&ndash;651].</ref>

The next day, sitting on her father's throne, Hypsipyle spoke to the assembled women of the Island:<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.57.xml 1.653&ndash;668].</ref>
:My friends, come, let us give these men gifts to their liking, such things as men ought to take with them on a ship, provisions and sweet wine, so that they might forever remain outside our walls, lest out of need they may come among us and get to know us all too accurately, and an evil report may travel far and wide. For we have done a terrible deed, and it will not be at all heart-cheering to them either, if they were to learn of it.

However, Hypsipyle's old nurse Polyxo said that, rather than live in continual fear of attack, they should take the Argonauts as their mates and protectors. All the women agreed to this plan, and so Hypsipyle received the Argonauts as welcome guests.<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.57.xml 1.668&ndash;707].</ref>

Hypsipyle told Jason the Lemnian women's story, saying that because of Aphrodite, the men of Lemnos had come to hate their wives, expelling them from their homes, and replacing them with Thracian girls captured on their frequent raids on nearby Thrace. Finally, after enduring terrible hardship, the women found the courage to take action. But Hypsipyle did not tell of the massacre, instead she deceived Jason, saying that one day when the men were returning from a raid, the women refused to allow the men to reenter the city, so the men took their sons and resettled in Thrace. Hypsipyle then asked Jason and his men to stay and take up residence on the island.<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.67.xml 1.793&ndash;835].</ref>

So the Argonauts stayed for a while on the island, residing with the women in their homes, including Jason, who lived with Hypsipyle in her palace. But finally, at the urging of [[Heracles]], who had remained apart, the Argonauts agreed to leave the women, and continue their quest for the Golden Fleece.<ref>Gantz, p. 346; [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.73.xml 1.853&ndash;877].</ref>

Hypsipyle told Jason that "her father's scepter will be waiting" for him should he return to the island, but that she does not think that he will, and asked him to promise to remember her always, and to tell her what she should do with any children of his she might bear. And Jason told her to send any son, when grown, to Jason's parents in [[Iolcus]].<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.75.xml 1.888&ndash;910].</ref> Jason took with him a "sacred purple robe", given to him by Hypsipyle, which had been made by the [[Graces]] for Dionysus, who gave it to his son Thoas, who in turn gave it to Hypsipyle.<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.311.xml 3.1204&ndash;1206], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.363.xml 4.423&ndash;427]. For a discussion of this robe see Fletcher, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sQPcDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA150 pp. 150&ndash;151]. Compare with [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.105.xml 2.408&ndash;417], where Hypsipyle gives Jason a robe, she made herself, which depicted Thoas being rescued. A robe as guest gift is also mentioned as having been given to the Argonaut [[Polydeukes]] by one of the Lemnian women at [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.117.xml 2.30&ndash;32].</ref>