Hippodameia
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Iliad
Daughter of Anchises and wife of Alkathoos, described admiringly by the narrator.
he was son-in-law to Anchises, having married his eldest daughter Hippodameia who was the darling of her father and mother, and excelled all her generation in beauty, accomplishments, and understanding, wherefore the bravest man in all Troy had taken her to wife - him did Poseidon lay low by the hand of Idomeneus, blinding his bright eyes and binding his strong limbs in fetters so that he could ne …