Henioche

In Greek mythology, the name Henioche (/hɛˈnaɪ.əkiː/; Greek Ἡνιόχη, fem. of ἠνίοχος "charioteer") may refer to:

• Henioche, a surname of Hera in Lebadea.^[1]

• Henioche, wife of King Creon of Thebes according to some authors;^[2] more commonly known as Eurydice.

• Henioche, daughter of Creon and the above, sister of Pyrrha. There were statues of the two sisters near the sanctuary of Apollo Ismenius in Thebes.^[3]

• Henioche, a daughter of Pittheus, thus a sister of Aethra. She was the mother of Sciron by Canethus.^[4]

• Henioche, daughter of Armenius the descendant of Admetus, consort of Andropompus and mother by him of Melanthus, who in his turn was father of Codrus.^[5]

• Henioche, the old nurse of Medea.^[6]

• Henioche or Heniocheia could be the correct form behind Henicea in Hyginus' catalogue^[7] of Priam's children.

References

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 39. 5
2. Shield of Heracles 83; scholia on Iliad 14. 323
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 9. 10. 3
4. Plutarch, Life of Theseus, 25. 4
5. Hellanicus in scholia on Plato, Symposium, 208d (p. 376)
6. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 5. 357
7. Hyginus, Fabulae, 90