Bebryce (mythology)

Bebryce (Ancient Greek: Βεβρύκη) was in Greek mythology one of the Danaïdes, whom the 3rd-century BCE mythographer Apollonius of Rhodes called "Bryce", and from whom the Bebryces in Bithynia were believed to have derived their name.[1][2] Others however derived the Bebryces from a hero, "Bebryx".[3]

In the story of the Danaïdes, all of them were commanded to slay their husbands by Danaus, and all but Hypermnestra complied. A later tradition -- not attested before Eustathius of Thessalonica in the 12th century CE -- has it that Bebryce also refused to kill her husband, Hippolytus.[1][4]

References

  1. ^ a b Eustathius of Thessalonica, Commentary on Periegesis of the World 805
  2. ^ Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 2.1.5
  3. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica s.v. Βεβρύκων
  4. ^ Bonner, Campbell (1902). "A Study of the Danaid Myth". Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. 13. Harvard University Press: 142. Retrieved 2026-02-22.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Bebryce". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 478.

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