Nikippe (Νικίππη) was one of the fifty daughters of Thespius, King of Thespiae, Boeotia. She was one of forty-nine daughters who by impersonating her older sister Prokris during one of the fifty nights Herakles was in Thespia was able to have sex with Herakles (believing Nikippe was Prokris) and consequently get pregnant by him (as King Thespius had hoped). Nikippe would bare Herakles a son Antimakhus.
Family[]
Parents[]
King Thespius and Queen Megamede or potentially one of Thespius' Mistress
Spouse & Lovers[]
Children[]
Antimakhus
Classical Text[]
"by Nikippe he [Herakles] had Antimakhus"
- Apollodorus, Biblioteca 2.7.8