Editing Hypsipyle (section)

===Later accounts===
[[File:Octavien de Saint-Gelais 1.jpg|thumb|Hypsipyle writing to Jason]]
The Roman poets [[Ovid]],<ref>[[Ovid]], Heroides [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.69.xml 6].</ref> [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]],<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.97.xml 2.311&ndash;425].</ref> and  [[Statius]],<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.295.xml 5.335&ndash;474].</ref> all wrote about the affair of Hypsipyle and Jason. Their accounts are all similar to that of Apollonius of Rhodes, with a few variations and additional details.

In his ''[[Heroides]]'' 6, Ovid has Hypsipyle, in an angry letter, rebuke Jason for having forsaken her for [[Medea]], whom she says "intrudes upon my marriage-bed".<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.81.xml 6.153].</ref> She says that Jason spent two years on Lemnos, and that, although he promised her "thine own will I ever be", and told her of his hope to share in the parenting of their offspring then in her womb, she now knows that Jason has taken up with Medea, and calls all these words of Jason "lies".<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.73.xml 6.56&ndash;64].</ref>

In his ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'', Valerius Flaccus, when the Argonauts are making ready to leave Lemnos, has a "weeping" Hypsipyle say to Jason: "So quickly, at the first clear sky, dost thou resolve to unfurl thy sails, O dearer to me than mine own father? ... Is it then to the sky and to the waves that hindered thy course that we owed thy tarrying?"<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.103.xml 2.403&ndash;408].</ref> She then gives Jason a "tunic of woven handiwork", and her father's sword "with its renowned emblem", "the flaming gift of Aetna's god", (i.e Vulcan), asking him to "forget not the land that first folded you to its peaceful bosom; and from Colchis' conquered shores bring back hither thy sails, I pray thee, by this Jason whom thou leavest in my womb."<ref>[[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica (Valerius Flaccus)|Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.105.xml 2.408&ndash;424].</ref>

[[Statius]] in his ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' has Hypsipyle say that her union with Jason "was not by my will",<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.303.xml 5.455].</ref> calling Jason her "ungentle guest", and her twin offspring by Jason, "memorials of a forced bed".<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.303.xml 5.463&ndash;464].</ref> She describes Jason as a "brute ... uncaring for his children and pledged word!".<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.305.xml 5.471&ndash;474].</ref>