The bride of Peirithous at the feast where wine maddened the centaur Eurytion and the battle of Lapiths and centaurs began — and mother of Polypoetes, born when her husband drove the centaurs from Pelium.1
Homer names her only in the Catalogue: glorious Hippodameia conceived Polypoetes to Peirithous on the day he took vengeance on the shaggy centaurs and thrust them from Pelium. The wedding that ended in war is implied by the later expulsion — the bride whose seizure by Eurytion the sculptors placed on Athens' pediment.2
Pausanias describes the scene Alcamenes carved: Peirithous in the centre, Eurytion seizing the wife of Peirithous, Caeneus bringing help, and on the other side Theseus with an axe. She must be kept distinct from Hippodamia the bride of Pelops — another name bound to a wedding, but of the Pelopid house, not the Lapiths.3
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