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Hipponous

In Greek mythology, Hipponous (Ancient Greek: Ἱππόνοος) referred to several people:

  • Hipponous, father of Capaneus and Periboea by Astynome.[1][2] He was son of Iocles, grandson of Astacus and great-grandson of Hermes and Astabe, a daughter of Peneus.[3]
  • Hipponous, one of the fifty sons of Priam,[4] the last Trojan whom Achilles killed before his death.[5]
  • Hipponous, an Achaean warrior killed by Hector.[6]
  • Hipponous, son of Triballus. He was the father of Polyphonte by Thrassa, the daughter of Ares and Tereine.[7]
  • Hipponous, who together with his father, son of Adrastus, were said to have thrown themselves into fire in obedience to an oracle of Apollo.[8]
  • Hipponous, another name for Bellerophon.[9]

Notes

  1. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.8.4
  2. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 70
  3. ^ Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women 133
  4. ^ Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.12.5
  5. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 3.155
  6. ^ Homer, Iliad 11.303
  7. ^ Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 21
  8. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 242; the context is obscure and perhaps corrupt.
  9. ^ Pindar, Olympian Ode 13.66

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