Hipponous

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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

  1. Bibliotheca 1. 8. 4
  2. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 133
  3. Bibliotheca 3. 12. 5
  4. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 3. 155
  5. Homer, Iliad, 11. 303
  6. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 21
  7. Hyginus, Fabulae, 242; the context is obscure and perhaps corrupt.
  8. Pindar, Olympian Ode 13. 66


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