Editing Melanippe

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:''The name Melanippe is the feminine counterpart of [[Melanippus]].''
[[File:Urfa Haleplibahçe Mosaic Museum Hunting Amazons mosaic 5180.jpg|thumb|300px|Amazon Melanippe on a late antique mosaic]]
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In [[Greek mythology]], the name '''Melanippe''' ({{Langx|grc|Μελανίππη|Melaníppē|black mare}}) referred to several different people:
* Melanippe, daughter of the [[Centaur]] [[Chiron]]. Also known as [[Hippe]] or [[Euippe]]. She bore a daughter to [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolus]], Melanippe or [[Arne (mythology)|Arne]] (see below). She escaped to Mount [[Pelion]] so that her father would not find out that she was pregnant, but, being searched for, she prayed to [[Artemis]] asking for assistance, and the goddess transformed her into a mare. Other accounts state that the transformation was a punishment for her having scorned Artemis, or for having divulged the secrets of gods. She was later placed among the stars.<ref>Pseudo-[[Eratosthenes]], ''Catasterisms'' 18</ref><ref>Hyginus, ''[[De astronomia]]'' 2.18</ref><ref>Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DM%3Aentry+group%3D16%3Aentry%3Dmelanippe-bio-1 "Melanippe" 1.]</ref>
*[[Melanippe (daughter of Aeolus)|Melanippe]], daughter of [[Aeolus (son of Hellen)|Aeolus]] and the precedent Melanippe (or else daughter of [[Hippotes]] or of [[Desmontes]]).
* Melanippe, a [[Aetolia|Aetolian]] princess as the daughter of King [[Oeneus]] of [[Calydon]] and [[Althaea (mythology)|Althaea]], daughter of King Thestius of [[Pleuron (Aetolia)|Pleuron]]. As one of the [[Meleagrids]], she was turned into a [[Guineafowl|guinea fowl]] by [[Artemis]] after the death of her brother, [[Meleager]].<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#2 2] as cited in [[Nicander|Nicander's]] ''Metamorphoses''</ref>
* Melanippe, an [[Amazons|Amazon]], sister of [[Hippolyta]], [[Penthesilea]] and [[Antiope (Amazon)|Antiope]], daughter of [[Ares]]. [[Heracles]] captured her and demanded Hippolyte's girdle in exchange for her freedom. Hippolyte complied and Heracles let her go.<ref>[[Diodorus Siculus]], 4.16.3</ref><ref>[http://www.freewebs.com/vitaphone1/history/justin.html Justin's Epitome of Trogus Pompeius' History of the World, Book 2, part IV] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121014210005/http://www.freewebs.com/vitaphone1/history/justin.html |date=2012-10-14 }}</ref> Some say that it was Melanippe whom [[Theseus]] abducted and married.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], E.1.16</ref> Yet others relate that she was killed by [[Telamon]].<ref>[[Scholia]] on [[Pindar]], ''Nemean Ode'' 3.64</ref>
* Melanippe, wife of Hippotes, son of [[Mimas (Greek myth)|Mimas]], himself son of Aeolus, and the mother of another Aeolus.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, 4.67.3</ref>
* Melanippe, a [[nymph]] who married [[Itonus]], son of [[Amphictyon]].<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 9.1.1</ref>
*Melanippe, possible wife of King [[Chalcodon]] of [[Euboea]] and mother of [[Elephenor]].<ref>[[Tzetzes]] on [[Lycophron]], 1034</ref>
*''Melanippe'', an emendation for "Medippe" (name of one of the [[sacrificial victims of Minotaur]]) in [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]]' commentaries on ''[[Aeneid]]''.

==Notes==
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==References==
*[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
*[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*[[Diodorus Siculus]], ''The Library of History'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59&ndash;8. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
*Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[Gaius Julius Hyginus]], ''Astronomica from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/207 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
*[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+1.1.1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library]
*Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
*[[William Smith (lexicographer)|Smith, William]]; ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'', London (1873).

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