Bebryce (mythology)
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Bebryce (Ancient Greek: Βεβρύκη) was in Greek mythology one of the Danaïdes, whom the 3rd-century BCE mythographer Apollonius of Rhodes called "Bryce", and from whom the Bebryces in Bithynia were believed to have derived their name.[1][2] Others however derived the Bebryces from a hero, "Bebryx".[3]
In the story of the Danaïdes, all of them were commanded to slay their husbands by Danaus, and all but Hypermnestra complied. A later tradition -- not attested before Eustathius of Thessalonica in the 12th century CE -- has it that Bebryce also refused to kill her husband, Hippolytus.[1][4]
