In Greek mythology, Hippalces was the father of the "ox-eyed" Clymene[1] by Aethra, daughter of Pittheus.[2][3] These women were handmaidens of Helen at Troy.[4]

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  1. ^ Scholia on Homer, Iliad 3.144
  2. ^ Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 6.2
  3. ^ Bell, Robert E. (1991). Women of Classical Mythology: A Biographical Dictionary. ABC-CLIO. pp. 10–13. ISBN 9780874365818.
  4. ^ Homer, Iliad 3.144; Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 10.26.1 with reference to Stesichorus, The Sack of Troy; Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 1.3 & 5.13; Ovid, Heroides 17.267

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