Euippe

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Euippe or Evippe (Ancient Greek:Ευίππη; English translation: "Good Mare (horse)") is the name of six women in Greek mythology:

• The daughter of Danaus and the naiad Polyxo. She married (and murdered) Imbrus, son of Aegyptus and Caliadne.^[1][2]

• Another daughter of Danaus, this time an Ethiopian woman. She married either Argius, son of Aegyptus and a Phoenician woman, or Agenor, son of Aegyptus.^[3][4]

• Another name for Melanippe, daughter of Chiron.

• Euippe of Paionia, the mother, by Pierus, of the Pierides, nine sisters who challenged the muses and, on their defeat, were turned into magpies.^[5]

• The daughter of Tyrimmas. She bore Odysseus a son, Euryalus, who was later mistakenly slain by his father.^[6]

• The daughter of Leucon. She bore Andreus (son of the river-god Peneus), a son, Eteocles, king of Orchomenos.

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