Hippodamas (mythology)
In Greek mythology, Hippodamas (/hɪˈpɒdəməs/ hi-POD-ə-məs;[1] Ancient Greek: Ἱπποδάμας, gen. Ἱπποδάμαντος) may refer to the following characters:
- Hippodamas, father of Perimele. He pushed his daughter off a cliff when he discovered that she was having a love affair with Achelous.[2]
- Hippodamas, son of Achelous and Perimede, daughter of Aeolus; brother of Orestes and father of Euryte.[3]
- Hippodamas, a son of Priam of Troy.[4] He was killed by Ajax the Great.[5][6]
- Hippodamas, another Trojan, was killed by Achilles.[7]
References
- ^ Walker, John (1830). A Key to the Classical Pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture Proper Names: To which are Added, Terminational Vocabularies of Hebrew, Greek, and Latin Proper Names: with Observations on the Greek and Latin Accent and Quantity. J.F. Dove. pp. 9, 66.
- ^ 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
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