Daughter of Thoas, king of Lemnos, who alone spared her father when the Lemnian women slew their husbands; she ruled the island when the Argonauts came and bore Jason Euneus and Nebrophonus.1
The Lemnian women did not honour Aphrodite, and the goddess visited them with a noisome smell; their husbands took Thracian captives instead, and the women in jealousy killed every male on the island — all save Hypsipyle, who hid Thoas in a chest and set him adrift on the sea.2
When the Argonauts touched at Lemnos, Hypsipyle, ruling alone, welcomed them; she lay with Jason and bore sons Euneus and Nebrophonus — and in after days Euneus sent wine from Lemnos to the Achaeans before Troy.3
Her later fate tied her to Nemea and the Seven. When the Lemnian women learned that Thoas had survived, they put him to death and sold Hypsipyle into slavery; at Nemea she nursed the infant Opheltes, son of Lycurgus and Eurydice, for the king of that city. When the Seven asked her for water on their march to Thebes, she left the boy to show them a spring — and a serpent killed Opheltes, whose death founded the Nemean games.4
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