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 Amazon.com: Hypseus: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
was the son of Apollo and Cyrene, the daughter of Hypseus, son of Peneius" (4.81.1).
Hypseus killed Prothocnor and, in turn, was killed by one of...
She, the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapithai, disliked the typical activities of girls,...
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 Greek Deities C
A Thessalian nymph carried off by Apollo to the north African region, which was named Cyrenaica after her.
Cyrene was a daughter of Hypseus by Calidanope.
Hypseus was a son of the Peneius River and the Naiad Creusa, and king of the Lapiths.
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 CYRENE : Naiad nymph of Pindar Mts in Thessaly & Cyrene in Libya ; Greek mythology : KYRENE
CYRE′NE (Kurênê), a daughter of Hypseus or Peneius by Chlidanope, a granddaughter of Peneius and Creusa, was beloved by Apollo, who carried her from mount Pelion to Libya, where Cvrene derived its name from her.
He was the king of the proud Lapithai, a hero of the seed of the great god Okeanos, child of the second generation, whom in the famous dells of Pindos once the Nymphe, daughter of Gaia, Kreusa bore, sharing the joys of love with the river-god Peneios.
But she loved not the pacing tread this way and that beside the loom, nor the delights of merry feasts with her companions in the household.
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 Cyrene, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Others say that she was daughter of the river god Peneus, who is called father of Hypseus 1.
Diomedes 1 is the king of the Bistonians in Thrace, who owned the man-eating mares that Heracles 1 had to fetch according to one of the LABOURS imposed by Eurystheus.
Actaeon, Agenor 1, Apollo, Ares, Aristaeus, Autonoe 2, Belus 1, Cadmus, Callicarpus, Charmus, Creusa 3, Cyrene, Diomedes 1, Epaphus 1, Gaia, Hypseus 1, Io, Libya, Macris, Nymph 7, Peneus.
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 Ixion, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
And this girl consorted with Apollo, giving birth to Lapithus 1 and Centaurus, ancestors of the aforementioned peoples.
Now Periphas 2 married his grandmother's niece Astyaguia (daughter of Hypseus 1), and begat eight sons, the oldest being Antion, who married Perimele 3 and begat Ixion.
Ixion married Dia, daughter of Eioneus 5; but since the groom would not hand over the gifts of wooing to his wife, Eioneus 5 took his mares as security for these.
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 Greek Deities D
Legend has it that she was changed into a laurel to avoid the sexual advances of the god Apollo, to whom the laurel became sacred.
This tragedy came about because her brother was Hypseus and her sister was Stilbe.
Stilbe became by Apollo the mother of Lapithes and Centaurus, and the god was therefore brother-in-law to Daphne.
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 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 65   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Ac­cording to the story most in vogue, he is the son of Apollo by the Thessalian nymph Cyrene, whom the god carried off to the country named after her.
She is the daughter of Hypseus, and granddaugh­ter (another story says daughter) of the river-god Peneus.
After his birth Hermes took Aristseus to the Hours and Gsea, the god­dess of the earth, who brought him up and made him an immortal god.
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 enargea.org | About the woman Ino/goddess Leukothea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Hera sought for vengeance against her, as against all who had helped her latest rival; she therefore drove both Ino and Athamas mad.
In one version, apparently that followed by Euripides, Ino rushed out of the house in a frenzy like that of the votaries of Dionysos, and remained away so long that Athamas thought her dead, and married Themisto, daughter of Hypseus, in her place.
After some time, when he had had two children by his new wife, he discovered that Ino was not dead, but restored to sanity, and she was secretly or openly brought back.
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 Cyrenean Greeks - Variant DBA 24e   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
According to Greek mythology, Cyrene (Kyrene) was the daughter of the naiad Creusa and the mortal Hypseus, king of the Lapiths.
Apollo fell in love with her and took her to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene), in the region that came to be known as Cyrenaica in eastern Libya.
Depending on the period chosen, a Cyrenean Greek army can be easily pieced together using miniatures from the classical or hellenistic Greek, Macedonian Successor, and early Libyan ranges offered by various manufacturers.
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 Apollo | Apolo, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Apis 2 took over power in the Peloponnesus, which he called after himself Apia, but being a stern tyrant he was conspired against and probably slain by his son Thelxion.
Cyrene is daughter of Hypseus 1, king of the LAPITHS.
Aristaeus received from the MUSES the arts of healing and of prophecy.
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 Cyrene   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The daughter of the naiad Creusa and the mortal Hypseus, king of the Lapiths.
The god Apollo fell in love with her and took her to Africa, where he built her a city (called Cyrene, on the coast of North Africa).
The region Cyrenaica is also named after her.
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 Articles
The tree became sacred to Apollo and legend tells us that every nine years pilgrims from Delphi would collect the laurel in the Vale of Tempe and bring it back to Delphi to crown the winners at the Pythian Games.
Peneus, the river god, was a son of the Titans Oceanus and Thetys and father also to Hypseus, the Lapith king.
Growing up in the wilds of the Pelion region, Cyrene became an avid huntress, enjoying nature and roaming the mountainside with the animals.
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 The Poet Statius
The Argives choose Thiodamas to replace Amphiaraus, and he sacrifices and prays to Earth to avert the omen (8.271-341).
The Thebans issue forth, battle is joined, and Hypseus and Haemon distinguish themselves (8.342-518).
Haemon then retreats before Tydeus, who now enjoys an aristeia in his turn.
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 Aristaeus
Calling the wise Centaur Cheiron from his cave nearby, the god asked him about the girl's parentage.
The centaur, divining Apollo's interest was more than genealogical, did not bother to tell him that she was a daughter of the Lapith king Hypseus, but predicted that the god would carry her off to Libya nd make her queen of a city named for her.
Apollo wasted no time in making the prophecy come true.
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 9 - Fortitude
Born of what mortal kind Is she, and stolen from what tribe of might, Who haunts these glades of shadowy mountains wild?
The nymph Kurene was the daughter of Hypseus ("Highest," referring to the sky) and the Naiad Creusa (a water nymph).
She was known as a virgin huntress who used her skill with sword and spear to protect her father's herds.
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 Apollodorus on Ino
I.9.2 But afterwards Athamas was bereft also of the children of Ino through the wrath of Hera; for he went mad and shot Learchus with an arrow, and Ino cast herself and Melicertes into the sea.
So Athamas settled in that country and named it Athamantia after himself; and he married Themisto, daughter of Hypseus, and begat Leucon, Erythrius, Schoeneus, and Ptous.
III.4.3 But Zeus loved Semele and bedded with her unknown to Hera.
mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /medea_lecture/apollodorus2.htm   (352 words)

  
 CREUSA : Oceanid nymph of Peneus R. in Thessaly ; Greek mythology : KREOUSA
[1.2] HYPSEUS, STILBE (by Peneios) (Diodorus Siculus 4.69.1)
She was a Naid, and became by Peneius the mother of Hypseus, king of the Lapithae, and of Stilbe.
"He [Peneios] lay with the Nymphe named Kreouse and begat as children Hypseus and Stilbe, and with the latter Apollon lay and begat Lapithes and Kentauros." - Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.69.1
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 Themisto
Eccentricity of the orbit around the planet Jupiter
Themisto is the daughter of Hypseus and the second wife of Athamas.
When Athamas returned to his first wife Ino, Themisto tried to kill Ino's children but killed her own children by mistake instead.
www.onasch.de /astro/showobject.php?lang=en&obj=p05m18   (71 words)

  
 Diomedes (Hercules' labors)
Ares (father), Cyrene (mother), Polymnestor (son), Aristaeus (half-brother), Hypseus (maternal grandfather, deceased), Peneicus (maternal great-grandfather)
Ares gave Diomedes a team of man-eating mares passed down from King Oenomaus of Pisa, who was another of his mortal sons who had been long killed by the hero, Pelops.
If you like this stuff, you should check out the real thing!
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix3/diomedes.htm   (388 words)

  
 Book 5
But found his wound too deep, and went down lifeless.
Went down from Hypseus' sword, and Hypseus fell
He tried to win by talking, and came forward
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