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Pisidice

In Greek mythology, Pisidice (/pˈsɪdɪs/, Ancient Greek: Πεισιδίκη, Peisidíkē) or Peisidice, was one of the following individuals:

  • Pisidice, a Thessalian princess as daughter of Aeolus, mother of Antiphus and Actor by Myrmidon.[1][2] She may also be the mother of Myrmidon's other children: Erysichthon[3][4], Dioplethes[5], Hiscilla[6] and Eupolemeia[7][8].
  • Pisidice, an alternate name for Demonice, mother of Thestius by Ares.[9]
  • Pisidice, daughter of Pelias, who, together with her sisters, killed their father, as Medea tricked them into believing this was needed to rejuvenate him.[10]
  • Pisidice, a Pylian princess and daughter of King Nestor and Anaxibia[11] or Eurydice.[12] She was sister to Polycaste, Perseus, Stratichus, Aretus, Echephron, Pisistratus, Antilochus and Thrasymedes.[13][14] She was probably the Pisidice who became the mother of Borus by Periclymenus, brother of Nestor and consequently her uncle.[15]
  • Pisidice, a princess of Methymna, who fell in love with Achilles as he besieged her city, and promised to put Methymna into his possession if he would marry her. He agreed to her terms but, as soon as the city was his, he ordered that she be stoned to death as a traitor.[16][17]
  • Pisidice, daughter of Leucon and mother of a son Argynnos, who was loved by Agamemnon and drowned in River Cephissus.[18]

Notes

  1. ^ Catalogue of Women fr. 10(a)
  2. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.7.3
  3. ^ Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.9b
  4. ^ Aelian, Varia Historia 1.27
  5. ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 16.177
  6. ^ Hyginus, De Astronomica 2.14
  7. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.54
  8. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  9. ^ Pseudo-Plutarch, On Rivers, 22. 1
  10. ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 35; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1. 9. 10; 1. 9. 27; Hyginus, Fabulae 24
  11. ^ Homer, Odyssey 3.451–52
  12. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.9
  13. ^ Homer, Odyssey, 3. 452
  14. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus. Bibliotheca, 1.9.9
  15. ^ Scholia on Plato, Symposium, 208d, citing Hellanicus
  16. ^ Parthenius, Love Romances, 21
  17. ^ Compare with the stories of Scylla and Minos, and of Comaetho and Amphitryon; see also Leucophrye
  18. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Argynnion

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