{{Short description|Daughter of Chiron in Greek mythology}} {{for|the surname|Hippe (surname)}}
In Greek mythology, '''Hippe''' (Ancient Greek: {{Langx|grc|Ἵππη|4=mare' or 'horse}}; {{IPA|en|ˈhɪpi|pron}}, {{Respell|Hip|pay}}), also known as '''Melanippe<ref>Pseudo-Eratosthenes, ''Catasterisms'' 18; Hyginus, ''De astronomia'' 2.18; Smith, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DM%3Aentry+group%3D16%3Aentry%3Dmelanippe-bio-1 "Melanippe" 1.]</ref>''' or '''Euippe''''','' was the daughter of the Centaur Chiron and Chariclo.<ref>Kuhn, on Julius Pollux, 4.141</ref> She was seduced by Aeolus and bore a daughter, Melanippe or Arne, but was ashamed to tell her father. Artemis took pity on her and, according to one account, turned her into the constellation Pegasus originally called the Horse.<ref>Hard 2015, pp.49–52.</ref>
== Note == {{reflist}}
==References== * Hard, Robin (2015), ''Eratosthenes and Hyginus: Constellation Myths, With Aratus's Phaenomena'', Oxford University Press, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0-19-871698-3}}.
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