Hypsipyle
The daughter
of king Thoas and queen Myrinna of Lemnos.
Because the women of the island had neglected Aphrodite
and not given her the sacrifices she demanded, they were punished by the goddess.
They all became so smelly that no men wanted to be near them, and so the women
decided to kill all the Lemnian men.
Hypsipyle helped her father escape and took his throne. When the Argonauts
came to Lemnos, all the women got pregnant, and funeral games were held in
king Thoas honour.
When Hypsipyles treachery of letting her father live was discovered she too
fled the island, and ended up at king Lycurgus court as his son Opheltes'
nurse.
One day the Seven against Thebes asked her for the directions to the city
they were about to attack, and while she told them Opheltes was killed by
a serpent.