Hippodamas
Hippodamas (Ἱπποδάμας, gen. Ἱπποδάμαντος) may refer to:
Greek mythology
- Hippodamas, father of Perimele. He pushed his daughter off a cliff when he discovered that she was having a love affair with Achelous.[1]
- Hippodamas, son of Achelous and Perimede, daughter of Aeolus, brother of Orestes (not the same as Orestes, son of Agamemnon); he was the father of Euryte.[2]
Historical persons
- Hippodamas of Salamis or Hippodamas of Samos, "author of a hexametrical distich about the origin and the opposite nature of gods and men, handed down to us by Iambl. VP 82."[7]
- Hippodamas, "of uncertain identity,"[8] named as a critic of Plato in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Letter to Pompey.
See also
References
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8. 591 ff
- ^ Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 10(a); Pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheca 1.7.3, 1.7.10
- ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 12. 5
- ^ Dictys Cretensis, 3. 7
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 113, where he is called "Hippodamus"
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 20. 401-406
- ^ Brill’s New Pauly, s.v. Hippodamas
- ^ W. Rhys Roberts, Dionysius of Halicarnassus: The Three Literary Letters, Cambridge UP, 1901, p. 169
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