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==Family== Hypsipyle's father was Thoas,<ref>[[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/44/mode/2up 1.620–621]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.17 1.9.17]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 15, 254; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.273.xml 5.38–39].</ref> who was the son of [[Dionysus]] and [[Ariadne]].<ref>Grimal, s.v. Thoas 1; Tripp, s.v. Thoas 2; Parada, s.v. Thoas 3; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aentry%3Dthoas-bio-2 s.v. Thoas 2]; [[Apollonius of Rhodes]], ''[[Argonautica]]'' [http://www.archive.org/stream/argonautica00apoluoft#page/322/mode/2up 4.424–426]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.79.xml 6.114–115]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg002.perseus-eng1:e.1.9 E.1.9]; [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.263.xml 4.775–776], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.289.xml 5.265–266].</ref> According to the ''[[Iliad]]'', Hypsipyle was the mother, by [[Jason]], of [[Euneus]].<ref>Gantz, p. 345; [[Homer]], ''[[Iliad]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg001.perseus-eng1:7.442 7.467–469].</ref> Later sources say that Hypsipyle had, in addition to Euneus, a second son by Jason.<ref>Gantz, p. 346; Parada, s.v. Hypsipyle; Grimal, Table 21, p. 542.</ref> In Euripides' partially preserved play ''[[Hypsipyle (play)|Hypsipyle]]'', she and Jason had twin sons: Euneus and [[Thoas (son of Jason and Hypsipyle)|Thoas]].<ref>Euneus and Thoas, appeared as characters in Euripides' play, see Collard and Cropp, [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.251.xml pp. 251–255]; [[Euripides]] ''Hypsipyle'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.257.xml test. iiia (Hypothesis)] [= [[P. Oxy.]] 2455 frs. 14–15, 3652 cols. i and ii.1-15], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.263.xml fr. 752d], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/euripides-dramatic_fragments/2008/pb_LCL506.311.xml fr. 759a.58–110 (Collard and Cropp, pp. 310–317)]; so also [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.303.xml 5.463–465], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/statius-thebaid/2004/pb_LCL207.351.xml 6.340–345]; [[First Vatican Mythographer]] 196 Pepin, p. 83.</ref> According to [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], the second son was Nebrophonus,<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0548.tlg001.perseus-eng1:1.9.17 1.9.17].</ref> while according to [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], the second son was Deipylus,<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' 15.</ref> [[Ovid]] says simply that Hypsipyle bore Jason twins, without naming them.<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Heroides]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.79.xml 6.119–122], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-heroides/1914/pb_LCL041.81.xml 6.143].</ref>
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