Myrrhine

Hipparchus, but five of Hippias, which he had by Myrrhine, daughter of Callias, son of Hyperechides; and naturally the eldest would have married first.

The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

He is the only one of the legitimate brothers that appears to have had children; as the altar shows, and the pillar placed in the Athenian Acropolis, commemorating the crime of the tyrants, which mentions no child of Thessalus or of Hipparchus, but five of Hippias, which he had by Myrrhine, who was the daughter of Callias son of Hyperechides; and naturally the eldest would have married first.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

He is the only one of the legitimate brothers that appears to have had children; as the altar shows, and the pillar placed in the Athenian Acropolis, commemorating the crime of the tyrants, which mentions no child of Thessalus or of Hipparchus, but five of Hippias, which he had by Myrrhine, who was the daughter of Callias son of Hyperechides; and naturally the eldest would have married first.

THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES Robert B. Strassler 2003

I cannot say much for you, Myrrhine! you have not bestirred yourself overmuch for an affair of such urgency.

Lysistrata 2000

Myrrhine, my little darling Myrrhine, what are you saying?

Lysistrata 2000

I call you, Myrrhine, Myrrhine; won't you please come?

Lysistrata 2000

Then why refuse to lie with me, my little girl, my sweet Myrrhine?

Lysistrata 2000

Oh! Myrrhine, Myrrhine, in our child's name, hear me; at any rate hear the child!

Lysistrata 2000

He is the only one of the legitimate brothers that appears to have had children; as the altar shows, and the pillar placed in the Athenian Acropolis, commemorating the crime of the tyrants, which mentions no child of Thessalus or of Hipparchus, but five of Hippias, which he had by Myrrhine, daughter of Callias, son of

The History of the Peloponnesian War 455? BC-395 BC Thucydides 1866

I as yet understood this only vaguely, though I saw clearly enough that beauty is so great a gift that talent, genius, and even virtue are nothing when weighed in the balance with it; so that the woman who is really beautiful has the right to hold herself superior to everybody and everything, inasmuch as she combines not in a creation outside of herself, but in her very person, as in a Myrrhine vase, all the qualities which genius painfully endeavours to reproduce.

Recollections of My Youth Renan, Ernest, 1823-1892 1897