Nicippe

Nicippe (also Nikippe) is a name attributed to several women in Greek mythology.

• Nicippe, one of the fifty daughters of Thespius and Megamede. She bore Heracles a son, Antimachus.^[1]

• Nicippe, daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia. She married Sthenelus and bore him Alcyone, Medusa, and Eurystheus.^[2] She is also known as Antibia^[3] or Archippe^[4].

• Nicippe, a priestess of Demeter in Dotion, Thessaly. Demeter assumes her shape to try to stop Erysichthon from cutting down the sacred grove.^[5]

Also known is one apparently historical figure of this name:

• Nicippe, daughter of Paseas, who dedicated a statue to Aphrodite Symmachia at the temple in Mantinea which was founded to commemorate the alliance of the Mantineans with the Romans in the Battle of Actium.^[6]

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