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Hippothoe

Ἱπποθόη

(Ἱπποθόη). There are several mythical personages of this name: 1. a daughter of Nereus and Doris (Hes. Th. 251); 2. a daughter of Danaus (Hyg. Fab. 170.); 3. an Amazon (Hyg. Fab. 163); 4. a daughter of Pelias and Anaxibia (Apollod. 1.9.10); 5. a daughter of Nestor and Lysidice, became by Poseidon the mother of Taphius. (Apollod. 2.4.5.)

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.