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Short description: Female name in Greek mythology

In Greek mythology, Zeuxippe (/zɡˈzɪp/; Ancient Greek: Ζευξίππη) was the name of several women. The name means "she who yokes horses," from zeugos, "yoke of beasts" / "pair of horses," and hippos, "horse."[1][2]

  • Zeuxippe, a naiad nymph of Athens and the mother of Erechtheus, Butes, Procne, Philomela and possibly Teuthras[3] by King Pandion I. She was the sister of Praxithea.[4]
  • Zeuxippe, the Athenian naiad-daughter of the river god Eridanos.[5] She was the mother of Butes by Teleon.[6]
  • Zeuxippe, a Sicyonian princess as the daughter of King Lamedon (son of Coronus) and Pheno. She was the wife of Sicyon and the mother of Chthonophyle.[7]
  • Zeuxippe, daughter of Hippocoon and the mother of Oicles and Amphalces with Antiphates.[8]
  • Zeuxippe, daughter of Athamas and possibly the mother of Ptous by Apollo.[9]
  • Zeuxippe, a Trojan queen as the possible wife of King Laomedon and the mother of his children.[10]

Notes

  1. (in en) American Reference Books Annual. Libraries Unlimited.. 1992. ISBN 978-0-87287-964-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=CUM0AAAAMAAJ&q=Zeuxippe+horse++yoke. 
  2. Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. pp. 167. ISBN 9780241983386. 
  3. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Thespeia
  4. Apollodorus, 3.14.8
  5. Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  6. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.72-73
  7. Pausanias, 2.6.5
  8. Diodorus Siculus, 4.68.5
  9. Scholia on Pausanias, 9.23.6 (but see article on Ptous for discussion)
  10. Scholiast on Homer, Iliad 3.250 as cited in Alcman, fr. 105

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