Leimone (Λειμώνη) or Leimonis (Λειμωνίς) was, in an Ancient

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legend, the daughter of Hippomenes, a descendant of King

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. When her father caught her having illicit sex, he killed her lover and locked her in an empty house together with a horse. The animal eventually came to be starving and devoured Leimone. The remains of that house were still extant in the times of

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, and the place was known as "At the Horse and the Maiden".

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References

Sources

* Grimal, Pierre. A Concise Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Basil Blackwell Ltd, 1990. - p. 242 *Lyons, Deborah. Gender and Immortality: Appendix - A Catalogue of Heroines. Princeton University Press, 199

- under Leimone *

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(ed.): ''Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie''. Band 2.2 (L-M), Leipzig, 1894–1897. - s. 1934 Ancient Athenian women {{AncientGreece-stub