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Nicippe

Νικίππη

(Νικίππη).

1. A daughter of Pelops, and the wife. of Sthenelus, by whom she became the mother of Alcinoe, Medusa, and Eurystheus. (Apollod. 2.4.5.) It should be remarked that some call her Leucippe, Archippe, or Astydameia. (Heyne, ad Apollod. l.c.; Schol. ad Thuc. 1.9.)

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.