Melanippe

Demigod daughter of Ares by Otrera; Amazon of Themiscyra; sister of Hippolyta, Antiope, and Penthesilea per the canonical-Apollodoran sister-roster. Per Justin 2.4 (the canonical-Roman tradition epitomizing Pompeius Trogus), captured by Heracles during the Ninth Labor and ransomed by her sister Hippolyta's surrender of the war-belt of Ares — the Justinian alternative-narrative to the Apollodoran killing-of-Hippolyta variant. Per Apollod. Epit. 1.16, one of three alternative-names (with Antiope and Hippolyta) for the Amazon-consort Theseus carried off; per Apollod. Epit. 5.2, also called Glauce, and treated as alternate-name for Hippolyta in the cross-naming-collapse tradition. Fate after ransom or Theseus-consort-variant uncertain. The canonical-Greek myth-making allowed this variability across the Hippolyta-Antiope-Melanippe-Glauce naming-cluster rather than fixing a single account.

Parentage

• father: AresApollod. Epit. 5.2 (primary)
• mother: OtreraApollod. Epit. 5.2 (primary)

Relations

• father: AresApollod. Epit. 5.2 (primary)
• mother: OtreraApollod. Epit. 5.2 (primary)
• sibling: HippolytaApollod. Epit. 5.2; Justin 2.4 (primary)
• sibling: Antiope the AmazonApollod. Epit. 5.2 (primary)
• sibling: PenthesileaApollod. Epit. 5.2 (primary)

Sources

• existence: Apollodorus, Epitome 1.16, 5.2 (primary); Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.966-969 (primary); Justin, Epitome of Pompeius Trogus 2.4 (the canonical-Roman ransom-narrative source) (primary); Diodorus Siculus 4.16 (primary)