Editing Hypsipyle

{{Short description|Queen of Lemnos in Greek mythology}}
{{about|the mythological figure|the play|Hypsipyle (play)|the minor planet|587 Hypsipyle}}
[[File:Hypsipyle sauve Thoas BnF Français 599 fol. 16.jpg|thumb|Hypsipyle saving [[Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas]].]]
In [[Greek mythology]], '''Hypsipyle''' ({{langx|grc|Ὑψιπύλη|Hypsipýlē}})<ref>Grimal, s.v. Hypsipyle.</ref> was a queen of [[Lemnos]], and the daughter of King [[Thoas (king of Lemnos)|Thoas]] of Lemnos, and the granddaughter of [[Dionysus]] and [[Ariadne]]. When the women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas. She ruled Lemnos when the [[Argonauts]] visited the island, and had two sons by [[Jason]], the leader of the Argonauts. Later the women of Lemnos discovered that Thoas had been saved by Hypsipyle and she was sold as a slave to [[Lycurgus (of Nemea)|Lycurgus]], the king of [[Nemea]], where she became the nurse of the king's infant son [[Opheltes]], who was killed by a serpent while in her care. She is eventually freed from her servitude by her sons.<ref>Grimal, s.v. Hypsipyle; Tripp, s.v. Hypsipyle; ''[[Oxford Classical Dictionary]]'', s.v. Adrastus, s.v. Hypsipyle.</ref>

==Family==
Hypsipyle's father was Thoas,<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/44/mode/2up 1.620&ndash;621]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.17 1.9.17]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 15, 254; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.273.xml 5.38&ndash;39].</ref> who was the son of [[Dionysus]] and [[Ariadne]].<ref>Grimal, s.v. Thoas 1; Tripp, s.v. Thoas 2; Parada, s.v. Thoas 3; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Dthoas-bio-2 s.v. Thoas 2]; [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/322/mode/2up 4.424&ndash;426]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.79.xml 6.114&ndash;115]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.1.9 E.1.9]; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.263.xml 4.775&ndash;776], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.289.xml 5.265&ndash;266].</ref> According to the ''[[Iliad]]'', Hypsipyle was the mother, by [[Jason]], of [[Euneus]].<ref>Gantz, p. 345; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.442 7.467&ndash;469].</ref> Later sources say that Hypsipyle had, in addition to Euneus, a second son by Jason.<ref>Gantz, p. 346; Parada, s.v. Hypsipyle; Grimal, Table 21, p. 542.</ref> In Euripides' partially preserved play ''[[Hypsipyle (play)|Hypsipyle]]'', she and Jason had twin sons: Euneus and [[Thoas (son of Jason and Hypsipyle)|Thoas]].<ref>Euneus and Thoas, appeared as characters in Euripides' play, see Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.251.xml pp. 251&ndash;255]; [[Euripides]] ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.257.xml test. iiia (Hypothesis)] [= [[P. Oxy.]] 2455 frs. 14&ndash;15, 3652 cols. i and ii.1-15], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.263.xml fr. 752d], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.311.xml fr. 759a.58&ndash;110 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 310&ndash;317)]; so also [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.303.xml 5.463&ndash;465], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.351.xml 6.340&ndash;345]; [[First Vatican Mythographer]] 196 Pepin, p. 83.</ref> According to [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], the second son was Nebrophonus,<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.17 1.9.17].</ref> while according to [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], the second son was Deipylus,<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 15.</ref> [[Ovid]] says simply that Hypsipyle bore Jason twins, without naming them.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.79.xml 6.119&ndash;122], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.81.xml 6.143].</ref>

==The Lemnian crime and the rescue of Thoas==
The women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, except for Thoas, who was saved by Hypsipyle.<ref>Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA384 p. 384]; Gantz, p. 345; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:14.193-14.241 14.230], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.442 7.467&ndash;469]; [[Aeschylus]], ''[[The Libation Bearers]]'' (458 BC) [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg006.perseus-eng1:631-638 631-638]; [[Pindar]], ''Pythian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg002.perseus-eng1:4 4.252]; [[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:6.138.4 6.138.4]; [[Euripides]] ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.309.xml fr. 759a.72&ndash;78 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 310&ndash;313)]; [[Aristophanes]], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aristophanes-attributed_fragments/2008/pb_LCL502.287.xml ''Lemnian Women'']; [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/44/mode/2up 1.609-630]; [[Gaius Valerius Flaccus|Valerius Flaccus]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/valerius_flaccus-argonautica/1934/pb_LCL286.77.xml 2.77&ndash;310]; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.273.xml 5.28&ndash;334]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 15; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.17 1.9.17], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.4 3.6.4]; [[First Vatican Mythographer]] 130 Pepin, p. 62; [[Second Vatican Mythographer]] 141 Bode [= [[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.259.xml test. va] = 164 Pepin, pp. 166&ndash;167].</ref> Traces of the story can be found in the ''[[Iliad]]'' (c. 8th century), where Lemnos is referred to as the "city of godlike Thoas",<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:14.193-14.241 14.230].</ref> and [[Euneus]], Jason's son by Hypsipyle, is mentioned.<ref>[[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.442 7.467&ndash;469].</ref> As early as Aeschylus the story was famous: "the Lemnian holds first place among evils in story: it has long been told with groans as an abominable calamity. Men compare each new horror to Lemnian troubles."<ref>[[Aeschylus]], ''[[The Libation Bearers]]'' (458 BC) [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg006.perseus-eng1:631-638 631-638].</ref> And by the time of the mid-5th-century BC historian [[Herodotus]], the story had given rise to the proverbial phrase "Lemnian crime" used to mean any cruel deed.<ref>[[Herodotus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0016.tlg001.perseus-eng1:6.138.4 6.138.4].</ref> Aeschylus probably dealt with it in his' lost tragedies ''Hypsipyle'' and ''Lemniai'' (late 6th century-early 5th century BC).<ref>Gantz, p. 345; Sommerstein, pp. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.127.xml 126], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.251.xml 250].</ref> The [[Greek lyric|lyric poet]] [[Pindar]] (late 6th century-early 5th century BC) mentions "the race of the Lemnian women, who killed their husbands."<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Pythian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg002.perseus-eng1:4 4.252].</ref>

===''Hypsipyle''===
There is a brief mention of the story in [[Euripides]]' partially preserved play ''[[Hypsipyle (play)|Hypsipyle]]'' (c. 410 BC), in an exchange between Hypsipyle and her son Euneus:<ref>[[Euripides]] ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.309.xml fr. 759a.72&ndash;78 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 310&ndash;313)].</ref>
::Hypsipyle
:Alas, the flight that I fled, my son—if you only knew it—from sea-girt Lemnos, because I did not cut off my father’s grey head!
::Euneus
:Did they really order you to kill your father?
::Hypsipyle
:I am gripped by fear of those evil events—O my son, like Gorgons they slew their husbands in their beds!

===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.

===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>

===Other accounts===
Other accounts tell similar stories, with variations. According to the 1st-century AD Latin poet [[Statius]], Hypsipyle hid Thoas on a ship,<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.291.xml 5.287&ndash;289]. Statius has Hypsipyle give a detailed account of the story at ''Thebaid'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.273.xml 5.28&ndash;334].</ref> while according to the late 1st-century BC Latin mythographer [[Fabulae|Hyginus]], who identifies Thoas with the [[Thoas (king of the Taurians)|Thoas]] who was the Taurian king, Hypsipyle put Thoas onto a ship which a storm carried to the "island Taurica".<ref>Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' 15.</ref>

According to the Greek mythographer [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]] (first or second century AD), the women of Lemnos were rejected by their husbands because Aphrodite had caused them to emit a foul odor. Apollodorus also gives a different ending to the story: while Thoas was saved when Hypsipyle hid him,<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.17 1.9.17].</ref> when, sometime later, the Lemnian women discovered that Thoas had escaped the initial slaughter, they killed Thoas, and sold Hypsipyle into slavery.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.4 3.6.4].</ref>

==Affair with Jason==
The first adventure (usually) of [[Jason]] and the [[Argonauts]], on their quest for the [[Golden Fleece]], is their visit to the island of [[Lemnos]], where Hypsipyle was then queen.<ref>Gantz, p. 345; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA384 p. 384]; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.442 7.467&ndash;469]; [[Simonides]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/simonides-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.441.xml?result=1&rskey=RdtVpV fr. 547 ''PMG'']; [[Pindar]], ''Pythian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg002.perseus-eng1:4 4.251&ndash;254], ''Olympian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg001.perseus-eng1:4 4.18&ndash;23]; [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.53.xml? 1.609-910], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/apollonius_rhodes-argonautica/2009/pb_LCL001.363.xml 4.423&ndash;427]; [[Propertius]], ''Elegies'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/propertius-elegies/1990/pb_LCL018.79.xml 1.15.17&ndash;20]; [[Ovid]], Heroides [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.69.xml 6]; [[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]; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.295.xml 5.335&ndash;474]; [[First Vatican Mythographer]] 130, 196 Pepin, pp. 62, 83.</ref> The story seems at least as old as the ''[[Iliad]]'', since [[Euneus]] is said to be a son of Jason and Hypsipyle,<ref>Gantz, p. 345; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.442 7.467&ndash;469].</ref> and was dealt with in Aeschylus' lost tragedies ''Hypsipyle'' and ''Lemniai'', although the only surviving detail is that the Lemnian women "in arms" refused to allow the Argonauts to land until they agreed to mate with them.<ref>Gantz, p. 345; Sommerstein, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/aeschylus-attributed_fragments/2009/pb_LCL505.251.xml pp. 250&ndash;251].</ref> [[Pindar]] refers to the visit, mentioning the Argonauts engaging in athletic contests, receiving garments made by the Lemnian women as prizes, and sharing the women's beds.<ref>Gantz, pp. 345, 346; [[Pindar]], ''Pythian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg002.perseus-eng1:4 4.251&ndash;254], ''Olympian'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0033.tlg001.perseus-eng1:4 4.18&ndash;23]. According to a scholion to Pindar, ''Pythian'' 4.253, [[Simonides]] also told of the Argonauts competing on Lemnos with "a garment for a prize", see Gantz, p. 346; Simonides [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/simonides-fragments/1991/pb_LCL476.441.xml?result=1&rskey=RdtVpV fr. 547 ''PMG''].</ref> In [[Sophocles]]' lost play ''Lemniai'', there was apparently a battle between the Argonauts and the Lemnian women.<ref>Gantz, p. 345; Lloyd-Jones, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/sophocles-fragments_known_plays/1996/pb_LCL483.205.xml p. 205].</ref>  The story also played a part in [[Euripides]]' partially preserved play [[Hypsipyle (play)|''Hypsipyle'']], where Hypsipyle is reunited with her twin sons by Jason, Euneus and [[Thoas (son of Jason and Hypsipyle)|Thoas]], and learns, to her sorrow, of Jason's death.<ref>Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.251.xml pp. 251&ndash;255]; [[Euripides]] ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.257.xml test. iiia (Hypothesis)] [= [[P. Oxy.]] 2455 frs. 14&ndash;15, 3652 cols. i and ii.1-15]; fr. 759a [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.311.xml 58&ndash;110 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 310&ndash;317)].</ref>

===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>

===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>

==Nurse of Opheltes==
[[File:Archemoros 119.png|thumb|Opheltes ensnared by the serpent.]]
Hypsipyle became involved in the story of the infant [[Opheltes]], the [[Seven against Thebes]], and the origin of the [[Nemean Games]].<ref>Bravo, pp. 101&ndash;140; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA318 p. 318]; Gantz, p. 511; [[Euripides]] ''Hypsipyle'' (Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.251.xml pp. 250&ndash;321]); [[Callimachus]] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/callimachus-minor_epic_elegiac_poems/1973/pb_LCL421.237.xml?result=1&rskey=XWoeNZ fr. 384.21&ndash;26 Pfeiffer]; Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' 15, 74; [[Ovid]], ''[[Ibis (Ovid)|Ibis]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-ibis/1929/pb_LCL232.275.xml 481&ndash;483]; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.259.xml 4.727&ndash;6.345]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.14 1.9.14], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.4 3.6.4]; [[Pindar]] scholia (Bravo, p. 115); [[Second Vatican Mythographer]] 141 Bode [= [[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.259.xml test. va] = 164 Pepin, pp. 166&ndash;167].</ref> On their way to [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]], the Seven, in need of water, stop at [[Nemea]], where they encounter Hypsipyle. Because of the discovery of her having saved Thoas, Hypsipyle has been sold into slavery to the parents of Opheltes, becoming his nursemaid. While helping the Seven to get water, Hypsipyle sets Opheltes down, and he is killed by a serpent. The Seven kill the serpent, and the seer [[Amphiaraus]], one of the Seven, renames the child Archemorus, meaning the "Beginning of Doom",<ref>Tripp, s.v. Opheltes.</ref> interpreting the child's death as a harbinger of the Seven's own impending doom at Thebes. The Seven save Hypsipyle from being put to death and hold funeral games in the child's honor, which become the origin of the Nemean Games. Hypsipyle's sons arrive, compete in the funeral games, and rescue Hypsipyle from her captivity.

===''Hypsipyle''===
The earliest involvement of Hypsipyle in the Opheltes/Archemorus story occurs in Euripides' ''[[Hypsipyle (play)|Hypsipyle]]'', and may well have been an Euripidean invention.<ref>Gantz, p. 511; Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.251.xml p. 251]; Bravo, pp. 106&ndash;110. For the extant fragments of the play with introduction and notes see Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.251.xml pp. 250&ndash;321].</ref> After fleeing Lemnos, Hypsipyle was captured by pirates and sold as a slave to Lycurgus, the priest of Zeus at [[Nemea]], where she has become the nurse to Lycurgus and Eurydice's son [[Opheltes]].<ref>Gantz, p. 511; Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.251.xml p. 251]; [[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.311.xml fr. 759a.72&ndash;74], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.313.xml 79&ndash;87] (flight, capture by pirates, slavery), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.257.xml test. iiia (Hypothesis)] [= [[P. Oxy.]] 2455 frs. 14&ndash;15, 3652 cols. i and ii.1-15] (Lycurgus as father), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.275.xml fr. 752h.26&ndash;28] (Lycurgus as priest of Zeus), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.293.xml fr. 757] (Eurydice as mother), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.293.xml fr. 757.41&ndash;44] (Hypsipyle as nurse). Although Lycurgus is a king in later accounts, there is no indication of that here, see Bravo, p. 107.</ref>

As the action of the play begins, Hypsipyle's twin sons by Jason, Euneus and Thoas, arrive seeking shelter for the night.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.263.xml fr. 752c] [= fr. 764 Nauck], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.263.xml fr. 752d].</ref> The sons have been separated from Hypsipyle since infancy, so neither recognizes the other. When Jason left Lemnos he had taken his sons to [[Colchis]]. After he died, Jason's fellow argonaut [[Orpheus]] took the boys to [[Thrace]], where he raised them. They eventually met Hypsipyles' father Thoas, who took them back to Lemnos. From there they embarked on a search for their mother.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.315.xml fr. 759a.93&ndash;105 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 314&ndash;315)].</ref>

The Seven against Thebes have also just arrived and encounter Hypsipyle. Amphiaraus tells Hypsipyle that they need water for a sacrifice, and she leads the Seven to a spring.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.273.xml fr. 752h], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.283.xml fr. 753].</ref> Hypsipyle brings Opheltes with her, and somehow, in a moment of neglect, Opheltes is killed by a serpent.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.285.xml fr. 753d], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.287.xml fr. 754], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.287.xml fr. 754a].</ref> The child's mother Eurydice is about to have Hypsipyle put to death, when Amphiaraus arrives and Hypsipyle pleads with him to speak in her defense.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.295.xml fr. 757.37&ndash;68 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 294&ndash;297)].</ref> Amphiaraus tells Euridice that the child's death was destined, proposes that funeral games be held in Opheltes' honor, and is able to convince Euridice to spare Hypsipyle's life.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.297.xml fr. 757.69&ndash;144 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 297&ndash;303]. The seer Amphiaraus describing his defense of Hypsipyle as relying "on piety", ([https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.297.xml fr. 757.73]) is suggestive of the child's death having been ordained by the gods.</ref> Funeral games are held, and Hypsypyle's sons participate, as a result of which, a recognition and reunion between Hypsipyle and her sons is effected, who then manage to free Hypsipyle from her servitude.<ref>[[Euripides]], ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.311.xml fr. 759a.58&ndash;110].</ref>

The surviving fragments of Euripides' play do not make it clear how the recognition between Hypsipyle and her sons was brought about, but two later accounts may have been based on the play.<ref>Collard and Cropp, pp. [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.253.xml 253] [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.259.xml 259, tests. iv, va with notes].</ref>  According to the [[Second Vatican Mythographer]], after the sons won the foot-race, at the funeral games, their names and parents were announced, and in this way their identities were revealed.<ref>[[Second Vatican Mythographer]] 141 Bode [= [[Euripides]] ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.259.xml test. va] = 164 Pepin, pp. 166&ndash;167].</ref> The [[Cyzicene epigrams]], the third book of the ''[[Palatine Anthology]]'', describes a depiction, on a temple in [[Cyzicus]], of Euneus and Thoas showing Hypsipyle a gold ornament ("the golden vine") as proof of their identities.<ref>''[[Greek Anthology]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/greek_anthology_3/2014/pb_LCL067.159.xml 3.10] [= ''[[Palatine Anthology]]'' 3.10 = Euripides ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.259.xml test. iv]]. Compare with [[Euripides]] ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.317.xml fr. 759a.110], where Euneus mentions a "wine-dark grape-bunch".</ref>

===Hyginus===
According to [[Fabulae|Hyginus]], when the women of Lemnos discovered Hypsipyle's deception, they tried to kill her, but, as in Euripides' play, she fled the island and was captured by pirates who sold her as a slave (although Hyginus' Latin text&mdash;probably in error&mdash;says she was sold to "King Lycus", rather than Lycurgus).<ref>Bravo, p. 118; Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' 15, with Smith and Trzaskoma's note 15. ''King Lycurgus'', p. 189: "we hesitantly have restored Lycurgus for Lycus in the belief that it is an error of transmission and not a mistake on the part of Hyginus", see also Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' 74, where Smith and Trzaskoma have again restored "Lycurgus" for "Lycus".</ref>

Hyginus also tells of an oracle that had warned that Opheltes should not be put on the ground until he had learned to walk, and says that, to avoid setting the child directly on the ground, she put him on a bed of wild celery where he is killed by a serpent who guarded the spring. Hyginus connects this with the tradition of the celery crowns awarded to the winners at the [[Nemean games]]. According to Hyginus, as in Euripides, the Seven intercede on Hypsipyle's behalf, but with Lycurgus, rather than Eurydice.<ref>Bravo, pp. 117&ndash;118; Hyginus, ''[[Fabulae]]'' 74. As Bravo notes, the oracle and explanation for the origin of the celery crowns, are only found in Hyginus, and are perhaps late inventions.</ref>

===The ''Thebaid''===
[[Statius]], in his epic poem, the ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]''&mdash;which tells the story of the Seven against Thebes&mdash;preserves the most complete account of the myth of Hypsipyle and Opheltes.<ref>Bravo, p. 118.</ref> As in Hyginus' account, when the Lemnian women discovered that Thoas had been saved, Hypsipyle fled the island, but was captured by pirates, and sold as a slave to Lycurgus,<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.305.xml 5.486&ndash;498].</ref> who is both the king of Nemea (as in Hyginus) and the priest of Zeus (as in Euripides).<ref>Bravo, p. 119. For Lycurgus as king of Nemea, see [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.323.xml 5.715&ndash;716] ("Lycurgus ... the king"), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.325.xml 733] ("ruler of Nemea"). For Lycurgus as a priest of Zeus, see [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.317.xml 5.638&ndash;641] ("Lycurgus ... at sacrifice ... offered portions to the unfriendly Thunderer"), and [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.317.xml 5.643&ndash;644] where it is said that priestly duties kept Lycurgus from participating in the Argive war against Thebes.</ref>

As in Euripides, Hypsipyle, who has become the nurse of Lycurgus and Eurydice's son Opheltes, encounters the Seven against Thebes, who are in urgent need of water.<ref>Bravo, p. 119; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.263.xml 4.778&ndash;779] (Hypsipyle describing herself as the "foster mother of a child entrusted to my care"), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.261.xml 4.746&ndash;752] (the Seven meeting Hypsipyle carrying Lycurgus' son Opheltes, "at her breast"), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.317.xml 5.632] (Euridice mother of Opheltes), [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.259.xml 4.730&ndash;745] (need for water).</ref> However in Statius' account, Hypsipyle does not take Opheltes with her to the spring, instead, in her haste to provide water for the Seven, she leaves the child behind, lying on the ground, "lest she be too slow a guide".<ref>Bravo, p. 120; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.263.xml 4.785&ndash;789].</ref> Hypsipyle takes the Seven to the spring, and when they have drunk their fill, they ask Hypsipyle to tell them who she is.<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.271.xml 5.1&ndash;27].</ref> Then, over the course of 471 lines of the ''Thebaid'', Hypsipyle tells the Seven her story: the massacre of the men by the Lemnian women, her saving her father Thoas, the visit to Lemnos by the Argonauts, her twin sons, Euneus and Thoas, by Jason, and how she came to be the nurse of Opheltes.<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.273.xml 5.28&ndash;498].</ref> Meanwhile, with Hypsipyle long delayed at the spring telling her story, and "oblivious (so the gods would have it) of her absent charge", Opheltes has fallen asleep in the grass,<ref>Bravo, p. 120; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.307.xml 5.499&ndash;504].</ref> and though unnoticed, he is  killed by an unwitting swish of the tail of the enormous serpent who guards Zeus' sacred grove.<ref>Bravo, pp. 120&ndash;121; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.307.xml 5.505&ndash;540].</ref>

Hypsipyle is again saved, by the Seven, from execution, but here, as in Hyginus, it is the king who is restrained.<ref>Bravo, p. 121; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.319.xml 5.653&ndash;679].</ref> As in Euripides, Hypsipyles' sons Thoas and Euneus, who are searching for their mother, arrive at the palace. In Statius' poem, Hypsipyle is able to identify her sons by means of the swords they carry, which belonged to Jason, and bear the mark of Jason's ship the [[Argo]] on them, and a joyous reunion ensues.<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.323.xml 5.710&ndash;730].</ref>

===Apollodorus===
[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], generally follows Euripides' account of the story, but differs at two points. According to Apollodorus, it was the Lemnian women themselves who, having discovered that Thoas had been spared, sold Hypsipyle into slavery. Also according to Apollodorus, as in Statius' account, Hypsipyle left Opheltes behind when she led the Seven to the spring.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:3.6.4 3.6.4].</ref>

==In literature==
*In his work, ''[[Inferno (Dante)|Inferno]]'', the 14th-century [[Italian people|Italian]] poet [[Dante Alighieri]] placed Jason in the [[Inferno (Dante)#Eighth Circle (Fraud)|eighth circle]] of [[Hell]], along with seducers and panderers, for his deception and abandonment of Hypsipyle.
*In the ''[[Purgatorio]]'', Dante's guide Virgil notes that Hypsipyle is among the virtuous pagans in [[Limbo]] (Canto 22.112)

== Notes ==
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==References==
* [[Aeschylus]], ''[[Oresteia|Libation Bearers]]'' in ''Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes.'' Vol 2. Cambridge, Massachusetts, [[Harvard University Press]]. 1926. [http://data.perseus.org/texts/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg007.perseus-eng1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes.'' Cambridge, Massachusetts, [[Harvard University Press]]; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''Apollonius Rhodius: the Argonautica'', translated by Robert Cooper Seaton, W. Heinemann, 1912. [http://www.archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/n5/mode/2up Internet Archive].
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