Galaxy/The codex of Hippodameia

Eldest daughter of Anchises, whom her father and queenly mother heartily loved for comeliness, handiwork, and wisdom — given in marriage to Alcathous, dear son of Aesyetes and fosterling of Aeneas.1

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Homer names Hippodameia eldest of Anchises' daughters when Alcathous, son by marriage to Anchises, falls before Idomeneus. She excelled all maidens of her years in comeliness, handiwork, and wisdom; wherefore the best man in wide Troy had taken her to wife.2

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BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Hippodameia — art, artifacts and echoes.

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