Hypsipyle.

    The first port Jason and the Argonauts visited was the island of Lemnos, where they found a population of women ruled by Hypsipyle, daughter of King Thoas. Aphrodite had punished the women for neglecting her rites by making them unattractive to their husbands, who turned instead to the Thracian concubines they had captured in war. In revenge the women killed all the men, except for Thoas, who escaped either with the help of his father, Dionysus, or by floating across the sea in a chest.
     When the Argonauts arrived, the women of Lemnos were so happy to see men that they persuaded the travelers to stay. Many children were born, including the twins Euneus and Thoas (Nebrophonus) to Jason and Hypsipyle. At the end of a year Jason and the Argonauts departed.
    Some time after the Argonauts’ departure, Hypsipyle was captured by pirates and sold into slavery under King Lycurgus of Nemea. In another tale, she was banished from Lemnos by the other women for saving her father. In both stories she was eventually rescued by her sons and returned to the island.
    Representations are rare in postclassical painting, but recur in poetry, drama, and opera.
    
    Classical Sources. Homer, Iliad 7.467k Pindar, Olympian Odes 4.32c; Pythian Odes 4.251ft. Herodotus, History 6.138. Euripides, Hypsipyle (fragments). Apollonius Rhodius, Ar-ponautica 1.607—909. Propertius, Elepies 1.15.17ft Ovid, Heroides 6; Metamorphoses 13.399ft. Apollodorus, Biblioteca 1.9.17, 3.6.4. Valerius Flaccus, Arponautica 2.242ft Statius, Thebaid 4.740—770, 5.29, 5.494ft Hyginus, Fabulae 15, 74, 254.