Hipponous
Appearance
In Greek mythology, Hipponous (Ἱππόνοος) referred to several people:
- Hipponous, father of Capaneus and Periboea with Astynome.[1] He was son of Iocles, grandson of Astacus and great-grandson of Hermes and Astabe, a daughter of Peneus.[2]
- Hipponous, one of the fifty sons of Priam,[3] the last Trojan whom Achilles killed before his death.[4]
- Hipponous, an Achaean warrior killed by Hector.[5]
- Hipponous, son of Triballus. He was the father of Polyphonte by Thrassa, the daughter of Ares and Tereine.[6]
- Hipponous and Adrastus, two otherwise unknown sons of Heracles, were said to have thrown themselves into fire in obedience to an oracle of Apollo.[7]
- Hipponous, another name for Bellerophon.[8]
References
- ^ Bibliotheca 1. 8. 4
- ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 133
- ^ Bibliotheca 3. 12. 5
- ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 3. 155
- ^ Homer, Iliad, 11. 303
- ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 21
- ^ Hyginus, Fabulae, 242; the context is obscure and perhaps corrupt.
- ^ Pindar, Olympian Ode 13. 66