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	MENIPPE, Greek Mythology Index
		A daughter of Orion and sister of Metioche.
		After Orion was killed by Artemis, Menippe and Metioche were brought up by their mother, and Athena taught them the art of weaving, and Aphrodite gave them beauty.
		Menippe and Metioche offered themselves; they thrice invoked the infernal gods, and killed themselves with their shuttles.
	www.mythindex.com /greek-mythology/M/Menippe.html (149 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 1041 (v. 2)
		A son of Areithous and Philomedusa, of Arne in Boeotia, was slain at Troy by Paris.
		Once the whole of Aonia was visited by a plague, and the oracle of Apollo Gor-tynius, when consulted, ordered the inhabitants to propitiate the two Erinnyes by the sacrifice of two maidens, who were to offer themselves to death of their own accord.
		Menippe and Metioche offered themselves ; they thrice invoked the infernal gods, and killed themselves with their shuttles* Per-
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/2149.html (895 words)

	Menippe and Metioche - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Orion was killed they were brought up by their mother, and Athena taught them the art of weaving and Aphrodite gave them beauty.
		Helicon was struck by a plague, and the oracle of Apollo Gortynius, when consulted, ordered the inhabitants to propitiate the two Erinnyes by the sacrifice of two maidens, who were to offer themselfs to death of their own accord.
		Minippe and Metioche offered themselvs; they thrice invoked the infernal gods, and killed themselvs with their shuttles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Menippe_and_Metioche (170 words)

	Suicides, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Menippe 2, daughter of Orion, killed herself to save her people from pestilence and was turned into a comet [see also Metioche 2 below, and CONSTELLATIONS] [Lib.Met.25].
		As Tiresias had predicted that someone had to die voluntarily to free Thebes from the plague, he threw himself from the walls of the city [Hyg.Fab.67].
		Metioche 2, daughter of Orion, killed herself to save her people from pestilence and was turned into a comet [see also Menippe 2 above, and CONSTELLATIONS] [Lib.Met.25].
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Suicides.html (2738 words)

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		Metioche is experiencing technical troubles resulting in disruption to service.
		The machine is being power cycled at this time in an effort to bring service back online most efficiently.
		Menippe is experiencing technical troubles resulting in disruption to service.
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	Menippe and Metioche: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Menippe and Metioche: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Early Romans used to use porcupine quills as toothpicks.
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	www.encyclopedian.com /me/Menippe.html (110 words)

	Menippe (1) * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Menippe (1) * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		A daughter of Orion who, with her sister Metiokhe (Metioche), offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.
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	www.messagenet.com /myths/ppt/Menippe_1.html (225 words)

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		When she sent him out to try and look for water, he ignored her warnings to go a certain way and came crawling back into Athens half-dead after the Horde was through with him.
		Metioche the Gentle - I can find references to Metioche in Greek myth, but little more than that.
		I have been told by one of my contacts that Metioche and her sister Menippe offered themselves as sacrafices to free Boeotia from a pestilence.
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	Medea 3 to Miletus 2 * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		See Menippe (1) by itself with citation tips (best for bookmarking).
		One of the fifty daughters of Nereus and Doris collectively known as the Nereids, i.e.
		A daughter of Orion who, with her sister Menippe, offered herself as a sacrifice to end a plague in Boeotia.
	messagenet.com /myths/ppt/_m1002.html (3771 words)

	Orion (mythology) - Modern interpretations, Ancestry, origins, birth, Orion and Merope, Orion at Lemnos, Orion and Eos
		There are variations, however, about how Artemis killed Orion: see Artemis for more details.
		Some commentators suggest that Orion had two daughters, Menippe and Metioche.
		Please include a link to this page if you have found this material useful for research or writing a related article.
	encyclopedia.stateuniversity.com /pages/16435/Orion-mythology.html (1442 words)

	Orion, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
		Hera cast Side 2 into Hades because she rivalled herself in beauty.
		Metioche 2 and Menippe 2, the Boeotian daughters of Orion, killed themselves to save their people from pestilence, and were turned into comets.
		This they did following an oracle that had promised deliverance if two virgins would sacrifice themselves.
	www.maicar.com /GML/Orion.html (660 words)

	Goddesses and Priestesses Connected to Athena (Cont.)
		Helping her in this work were the Sirens and the Koronides 'ravens, crows, or maidens' who brought Persphone souls just as the Valkyries did to Freya.
		However, there were only two Koronides, Menippe 'Moon horse' and Metioche 'having arrows,' deified priestesses of Boeotian Orchomenos.
		They won full apotheosis by ending a famine there, possibly by introducing irrigation techniques badly needed in that part of Greece.
	www.moonspeaker.ca /Athena/persephone.html (2387 words)

	Korinna \|
		Unfortunately only two of her poems survive until now: "Shuttle Maidens" and "Daughters of Minyas"
		“Koronaiê” or “The Shuttle Maidens,” tells of Orion's two daughters Metiochê and Menippê.
		An oracle demands that "parthenoi two" dedicate themselves to "deities two" to avert a plague.
	www.freewebs.com /maiden-korinna/aboutkorinna.htm (470 words)

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		But I sang the glory of local heroes, hurrahed in our heroines :
		Metioche and Menippe (great Orionâs fearless daughters, shooting stars across the skies)
		(Note: In mythology Metioche and Menippe were daughters of Orion who offered to die when a pestilence was raging in Viotia and the oracle demanded the sacrifice of two virgins)
	www.alexander-the-great.co.uk /forum/viewtopic.php?t=958&start=15 (2338 words)

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