Hyperes

In Greek mythology, the name Hyperes (Ancient Greek: Ὑπέρης, gen. Ὑπέρητος) may refer to:

  • Hyperes, an Arcadian prince as the son of King Lycaon and the eponym of Hyperesia in Achaea.[1]
  • Hyperes, a Boeotian son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, and brother of Anthas. He was the father of Arethusa,[2] mother of Abas by Poseidon. Hyperes and his brother Anthas reigned over what later became Troezen and were founders of the cities Hyperea and Anthea respectively.[3] Two brands of Troezenian wine, Anthedonias and Hypereias, were believed to have been named after certain "Anthus and Hyperus", who apparently are the same figures.[4] See also Hyperenor.
  • Hyperes, another Boeotian as son of Melas and Eurycleia. He lived by a spring which was named Hypereia after him.[5]
  1. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Hyperēsia
  2. ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai 131 from Michigan papyrus
  3. ^ Pausanias, 2.30.8
  4. ^ Athenaeus, 1.31C, referring to Aristotle. Cf. also Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 19, for citation of likely the same passage from Aristotle, and a story of a brother and a sister, Anthus and Hypera, taken from Mnasigeiton.
  5. ^ Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 4.221c