Abstract
Killers of men seized by madness and victims of dusosmia, such is the appearance of the Lemnian Women in the vulgate and in the modern dictionaries. However, the version given by the actual sources is more subtle. My study focuses on the Lemnian part of the myth of Hypsipyle, in particular as it is connected to the Lemnian crime. Its first part proposes a journey through Greek and Latin literature from the archaic period to the Rome of Flavian times, sketching the legend of Hypsipyle and of the Lemnian crime. Listing the diverse attestations of the myth, I highlight the innovations as well as the evolution of certain aspects of the legend. In the second part of my study I focus on the elements that constitute the myth, relating the full corpus of texts that support them. As a conclusion I suggest some explications concerning the modification or disappearance of certain aspects of the myth.
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