Nicippe

Mortal Pelopid princess, daughter of Pelops and Hippodamia; wife of Sthenelus of Mycenae and mother of Eurystheus, the taskmaster of Heracles, whose premature birth Hera contrived. Through her the Pelopid and Perseid houses are joined a generation before the Atreidae take Mycenae.

Parentage

• Pelops
• Hippodamia

Children

• Eurystheus

Domains

• queenship

Relations

• spouse: Sthenelus
• mother of: Eurystheus

Sources

• Apollodorus 2.4.5; Homer Iliad 19.95-133 (the hastened birth of Eurystheus); scholia Hom. Il. 19.116; Hyg. Fab. 244
• Apollod. 2.4.5 (daughter of Pelops, wife of Sthenelus)