Harpalyce

• the daughter of the Thracian king Harpalycus, brought up as a warrior, Verg. A. 1, 317 Serv.; Hyg. Fab. 193; 252; 254.

(Ἁρπαλύκη).

1. A daughter of Harpalycus, king of the Amymnaeans in Thrace. As she lost her mother in her infancy, she was brought up by her father with the milk of cows and mares, and was trained in all manly exercises. After the death of her father, whom she had once delivered from the hand of the Myrmidones, she spent her time in the forests as a robber, being so swift in running that horses were unable to overtake her. At length, however, she was caught in a snare by shepherds, who killed her. (Serv. ad Virg. Aen. 1.321; Hyg. Fab. 193.)

2. A maiden who died because her love of Iphiclus was not returned. In commemoration of her fate, a contest in songs (ᾠδῆς ἀγών) was celebrated by maidens. (Aristoxenus, apud Athen. xiv. p. 619.)

For a third personage of this name, see Clymenus, No. 2. [L.S]

(Ἁρπαλύκη). (1) Daughter of Harpalycus, king in Thrace, brought up by her father as a warrior, on the milk of cows and mares. After his death she became a robber in the forest, being able to outrun horses. She was at last snared and killed by shepherds (Hyg. Fab. 193).

(2) The daughter of Clymenus and Epicasté. She was seduced by her own father, upon whom she afterwards revenged herself by killing her younger brother and serving him up as food on the father's table. By the gods she was changed into a bird.