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, a daughter of Hypseus, was the third wife of Athamas king of Thebes, by whom she had four sons, called Ptous, Leucon, Schœneus, and Erythroes. She endeavoured to kill the children of Ino, her husband’s second wife, but she killed her own, by means of Ino, who lived in her house in the disguise of a servant-maid, and to whom she entrusted her bloody intentions, upon which she destroyed herself. Pausanias , bk. 9 , ch. 23 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 1 , ch. 9 .――A woman mentioned by Polyænus.――The mother of the poet Homer, according to a tradition mentioned by Pausanias, bk. 10 , ch. 24 .