Daughter of Pelops and wife of Sthenelus son of Perseus, queen of Mycenae in the Perseid succession and mother of Eurystheus — the lord Hera contrived to be born before Heracles.1
Apollodorus names Nicippe, daughter of Pelops, as the wife of Sthenelus at Mycenae. By her he had the daughters Alcyone and Medusa, and afterward the son Eurystheus, who reigned over Mycenae when the Perseid line still held the fortress.2
Homer sets the divine contest at her pregnancy. Hera came swiftly to Achaean Argos, where she knew the stately wife of Sthenelus, son of Perseus, was carrying a son in her womb — the seventh month come — and brought Eurystheus to the light before his full tale of months, while she stayed Alcmene's bearing, so that the kingship Zeus had sworn for the Perseid born that day fell to Sthenelus' house and not to Heracles.3
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