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The earliest extant telling of the story, however, occurs in the 3rd-century BC Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. [24] According to this account, all the men on the island had been killed by the women, except for the "aged" Thoas, who was saved by his daughter Hypsipyle.
Since 1976, when the Supreme Court of the United States lifted the moratorium on capital punishment in Gregg v. Georgia, 19 women have been executed in the United States. [1] Women represent less than 1.15 percent of the 1,561 executions performed in the United States since 1976. [2]
Revenge of the Women of Lemnos. The men of Lemnos soon discover the women from Thrace, a nearby country, and choose intimacy with them instead of their wives. Enraged, the women of Lemnos arise in fury one night and slaughter the men of Lemnos. King Thoas – secretly hidden on a ship by his daughter, Hypsipyle, is spared.
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In Greek mythology, Hypsipyle (Ancient Greek: Ὑψιπύλη, romanized: Hypsipýlē) was a queen of Lemnos, and the daughter of King Thoas of Lemnos, and the granddaughter of Dionysus and Ariadne. When the women of Lemnos killed all the males on the island, Hypsipyle saved her father Thoas.
Lemnos or Limnos ( Greek: Λήμνος; Ancient Greek: Λῆμνος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. Administratively the island forms a separate municipality within the Lemnos regional unit, which is part of the North Aegean region. The principal town of the island and seat of the municipality is Myrina. [2]
Hypsipyle, in Greek legend, daughter of Dionysus’s son Thoas, king of the island of Lemnos. When the women of Lemnos, furious at their husbands’ betrayal, murdered all the men on the island, Hypsipyle hid her father and aided his escape. She became queen of the island and welcomed the Argonauts.
The trial of Theoris of Lemnos is the best-known of several classical Athenian trials of women who practiced magic; [1] it is also the best-attested, appearing in three ancient sources. [2] The earliest and most detailed source is Demosthenes ' [a] speech Against Aristogeiton, [3] which was addressed to jurors in the trial of Aristogeiton, an ...
