King of Lapiths
In Greek mythology, the name Hypseus (; Ancient Greek: Ὑψεύς "one on high", derived from hypsos "height") may refer to:
- Hypseus, a king of the Lapiths and son of the river god Peneus either by (1) the naiad Creusa,[1] daughter of Gaia;[2] (2) Philyra, daughter of Asopus[3] or (3) Naïs.[4] By the naiad Chlidanope[5][6] he had four daughters: Cyrene,[7] Themisto,[8] Alcaea[5] and Astyagyia.[9]
- Hypseus, who fought on Phineus' side against Perseus, killed Prothoenor but was himself slain by Perseus.[10]
- Hypseus, son of Asopus, who fought in the war of the Seven against Thebes.[11] He killed a number of opponents, including Antiphōs, Astyages, Linus, and Tages, and was himself slain by Capaneus.[12]
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.69.1
- ^ Pindar, Pythian Odes 9.13 ff
- ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.27b with Achesandros as the authority
- ^ Scholia ad Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.27b with Pherecydes as the authority
- ^ a b Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 9.31
- ^ Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. p. 276. ISBN 9780241983386.
- ^ Callimachus, Hymn 2 to Apollo 85 ff; Diodorus Siculus, 4.81.1; Nonnus, 29.180
- ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.2
- ^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.69.3
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.98-99
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 7.310 ff & 723 ff
- ^ Statius, Thebaid 9.252 ff & 540 ff