Menippe and Metioche
'courageous mare,[1] sipper[2]') and Metioche (Ancient Greek: Μητιόχη, romanized: Mētióchē) were daughters of Orion.[3] After Orion was killed by Artemis, the girls were raised by their mother while Athena taught them the art of weaving and Aphrodite gave them beauty.Helicon was struck by a plague, and the oracle of Apollo Gortynius, when consulted, informed the people that the two gods of the Underworld[a] were angry and that they would only be appeased with the sacrifice of two maidens, who were to offer themselves to death of their own accord.After they thrice invoked the infernal gods, they killed themselves with their shuttles, placating the wrath of the two subterranean rulers.[4][5] In Ovid's recount of the tale, the daughters of Orion remain unnamed and sacrifice themselves for no distinctly given reason, although a withered tree and gaunt goats on a barren field are mentioned and indicate the presence of a plague.