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Hippolyte was the mother of Hippolytus; she also goes by the names of Glauce and
Melanippe. For when the marriage of Phaedra was being celebrated, Hippolyte appeared in
arms with her Amazons, and said that she would slay the guests of Theseus. So a battle
took place, and she was killed, whether involuntarily by her ally Penthesilia, or by
Theseus, or because his men, seeing the threatening attitude of the Amazons, hastily
closed the doors and so intercepted and slew her.1
1 See above, Apollod. E.1.17. The two passages are practically duplicates of each other. The former occurs in the Sabbaitic, the latter in the Vatican Epitome of Apollodorus. The author of the one compendium preferred to relate the incident in the history of Theseus, the other in the history of Troy.
Apollodorus. Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Includes Frazer's notes.
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