Hyperes
InGreek mythology,the nameHyperes(Ancient Greek:Ὑπέρης,gen.Ὑπέρητος) may refer to:
- Hyperes, anArcadianprince as the son of KingLycaonand theeponymofHyperesiainAchaea.[1]
- Hyperes, aBoeotianson ofPoseidonand thePleiadAlcyone,and brother ofAnthas.He was the father ofArethusa,[2]mother ofAbasby Poseidon. Hyperes and his brother Anthas reigned over what later becameTroezenand were founders of the cities Hyperea and Anthea respectively.[3]Two brands of Troezenian wine,AnthedoniasandHypereias,were believed to have been named after certain "Anthus and Hyperus", who apparently are the same figures.[4]See alsoHyperenor.
- Hyperes, another Boeotian as son ofMelasandEurycleia.He lived by a spring which was named Hypereia after him.[5]
Notes
[edit]- ^Stephanus of Byzantium,s.v.Hyperēsia
- ^Hesiod,Ehoiai131 fromMichigan papyrus
- ^Pausanias,2.30.8
- ^Athenaeus,1.31C, referring toAristotle.Cf. alsoPlutarch,Quaestiones Graecae19, for citation of likely the same passage from Aristotle, and a story of a brother and a sister,Anthusand Hypera, taken from Mnasigeiton.
- ^ScholiaonPindar,Pythian Ode4.221c
References
[edit]- Athenaeus of Naucratis,The Deipnosophistsor Banquet of the Learned.London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Athenaeus of Naucratis,Deipnosophistae.Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Hesiod,Catalogue of WomenfromHomeric Hymns, Epic Cycle, Homericatranslated by Evelyn-White, H G. Loeb Classical Library Volume 57. London: William Heinemann, 1914.Online version at theio.com
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus,Moraliawith an English Translation by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1936.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Pausanias,Description of Greecewith an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols.Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Stephanus of Byzantium,Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling.Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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