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'Hippolyte', or 'Hippolytus' (male form) or 'Hippolyta' (female form), can mean several things:
★ Hippolyte or Hippolyta, an Amazon queen whose girdle is the object of one of the labours of Heracles
★ Hippolyte, mother of Epistrophus and Schedius, by Iphitus
★ Hippolyte, daughter of Dexamenus. The Centaur Eurytion tried to rape her at her wedding feast (she was marrying Azan, son of Arcas), but Heracles, who was also at the feast, saved her, killing the centaur.
★ Hippolyte, daughter of Cretheus, and wife, in some versions, of Acastus, who lied and said that Peleus had tried to seduce her. This role in the story is more often taken by Astydamia.
★ Hippolytus of Rome, an early Christian writer and saint
★ Hippolyte of Antioch
★ Hippolyte, a character in Flaubert's novel ''Madame Bovary''
★ Hippolyta, a character in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', loosely based on the Amazon queen
★ Queen Hippolyta, a DC Comics super-heroine who is the mother of Wonder Woman, loosely based on the Amazon queen.
★ Hippolyta, a Marvel Comics character based on the mythological version.
★ Hippolytus, a son of Theseus and either Antiope or of queen Hippolyte/Hippolyta (see above)
★ ''Hippolytus'', a tragedy by Euripides about the above character
★ A character in Jean Racine's play, ''Phèdre'', also based on the myth of Hippolytus
★ Several French communes are named Saint-Hippolyte
★ Hippolyte is a genus of shrimp.
'Hippolyte', or 'Hippolytus' (male form) or 'Hippolyta' (female form), can mean several things:
| Contents |
| Greek mythology and its influence |
| Saints |
| Literature |
| Geography |
| Natural history |
Greek mythology and its influence
★ Hippolyte or Hippolyta, an Amazon queen whose girdle is the object of one of the labours of Heracles
★ Hippolyte, mother of Epistrophus and Schedius, by Iphitus
★ Hippolyte, daughter of Dexamenus. The Centaur Eurytion tried to rape her at her wedding feast (she was marrying Azan, son of Arcas), but Heracles, who was also at the feast, saved her, killing the centaur.
★ Hippolyte, daughter of Cretheus, and wife, in some versions, of Acastus, who lied and said that Peleus had tried to seduce her. This role in the story is more often taken by Astydamia.
Saints
★ Hippolytus of Rome, an early Christian writer and saint
★ Hippolyte of Antioch
Literature
★ Hippolyte, a character in Flaubert's novel ''Madame Bovary''
★ Hippolyta, a character in Shakespeare's ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', loosely based on the Amazon queen
★ Queen Hippolyta, a DC Comics super-heroine who is the mother of Wonder Woman, loosely based on the Amazon queen.
★ Hippolyta, a Marvel Comics character based on the mythological version.
★ Hippolytus, a son of Theseus and either Antiope or of queen Hippolyte/Hippolyta (see above)
★ ''Hippolytus'', a tragedy by Euripides about the above character
★ A character in Jean Racine's play, ''Phèdre'', also based on the myth of Hippolytus
Geography
★ Several French communes are named Saint-Hippolyte
Natural history
★ Hippolyte is a genus of shrimp.
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