Hippasus (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Hippasus (Ἴππασος) is the name of fourteen characters.
- Hippasus, name shared by fathers of several heroes of the Trojan War:
- Hippasus, son of Eurytus. He was one of the hunters of the Calydonian Boar.[10][11][12]
- Hippasus from the Pellene district of the Peloponnese, father of Actor, Iphitus, Asterion, Amphion, and Naubolus. The latter four are otherwise ascribed different parentage.[13][14][15]
- Hippasus, a Centaur. Killed by Theseus at the wedding of Pirithous and Hippodamia.[16][17]
- Hippasus, one of the sons of Priam.[18]
- Hippasus, a Thessalian killed by Agenor in the Trojan War.[19]
- Hippasus, son of Ceyx, killed in battle whilst fighting alongside Heracles against Eurytus.[20]
- Hippasus, son of Leucippe. He was killed by her and her fellow Minyades.[21]
- Hippasus from Phlius opposed his fellow citizens, who wished to accede to the wishes of the Dorian Rhegnidas and make him their king. He and his fellow supporters fled to Samos. Hippasus is the ancestor of the philosopher Pythagoras, Pythagoras being the son of Mnesarchus, the son of Euphranor, the son of Hippasus.[22]
References
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 11. 36
- ^ Homer. The Iliad, 11.426.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 1. 279
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13. 257
- ^ Homer. The Iliad, 13.411.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy, 10.126.
- ^ Homer. The Iliad, 17.348.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy, 6.562.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy, 9. 150
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8. 313
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 173
- ^ Theoi Project - Calydonian Boar.
- ^ Bibliotheca 1. 9. 16
- ^ Hyginus Fabulae, 14.
- ^ Statius. Thebaid, 7.340.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12. 352
- ^ Theoi Project - Kentauroi Thessalioi
- ^ Hyginus. Fabulae, 90.
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy, 11. 87
- ^ Apollodorus. The Library, 2.7.7.
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 10
- ^ Pausanias. Description of Greece, 2.13.1; 2.13.2.