Hypsipyle
- daughter of Thoas, queen of Lemnos in the time of the Argonauts; she saved her father when the women killed all the men; she also entertained Jason, Stat. Th. 4, 739 sq.; Ov. H. 6, 1 sq.; Val. Fl. 2, 90 sq.; Prop. 1, 15, 18: Hypsipyles patria, i.e. Lemnos, Ov. M. 13, 399.
- —Hence, Hypsĭpylēus, a, um, adj.: tellus, i.e. Lemnos, Ov. F. 3, 82.
[Thoas, Jason, Adrastus.]
(Ὑψιπύλη). Daughter of Thoas of Lemnos. The Lemnian women had, from jealousy of their Thracian maids, killed all the men of the island; Hypsipylé alone spared her father Thoas, having been the means of aiding his flight. When the Argonauts landed at Lemnos and united with the women, Hypsipylé bore twin sons to Iason— Euneus, who in Homer figures as king of Lemnos and carries on trade with the Greeks before Troy; and Thoas (also called Deïphilus and Nebrophonus), who is sometimes described as a son of Dionysus. When the news of her father's escape was rumoured among the Lemnian women, Hypsipylé was forced to flee for her life, and was captured by pirates, who sold her to Lycurgus of Nemea. There, as the nurse of Opheltes, the infant son of the king, she accidentally caused his death by a snake (see Seven Against Thebes), and was exposed to the greatest danger, from which she was only rescued by the intervention of her sons, who were sent to her aid by Dionysus.
- queen of Lemnos, saves her father from massacre: Apollod. 1.9.17
- bedded with Jason: Apollod. 1.9.17
- sold into slavery, serves in the house of Lycurgus, king of Nemea: Apollod. 3.6.4
- nurses the child of Lycurgus: Apollod. 3.6.3
- guides the Seven against Thebes to a spring: Apollod. 3.6.3