Harpalyce
2. A maiden who died because her love of Iphiclus was not returned. In commemoration of her fate, a contest in songs (ᾠδῆς ἀγών) was celebrated by maidens. (Aristoxenus, apud Athen. xiv. p. 619.)
For a third personage of this name, see CLYMENUS, No. 2.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.