Hyperochus
Family: Hyperborean · Role: warrior · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 4
At Delphi in Book 1, Chapter 4, Hyperochus and Amadocus, both said to have come from the Hyperboreans, fought alongside Pyrrhus against the Galati. The three “pressed them hard” during the battle.
In Book 10, Chapter 12, Demo is described as recording that a woman called Demo, a native of Cumæ, delivered oracles after Herophile and in a similar manner.
Relationship record
Life events
- Hyperochus, Amadocus, and Pyrrhus press the Galati hard during the battle at Delphi.(Book 1 · Chapter 4 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Amadocus Pyrrhus (son of Achilles)
- “And when the armies engaged not only did lightnings dismay the Galati, and fragments of rock coming down on them from Parnassus, but three mighty warriors pressed them hard, two, they say, came from the Hyperboreans, Hyperochus and Amadocus, and the third was Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.”
Book 1 · Chapter 4
- with Amadocus (They fought together as warriors against the Galati.) “three mighty warriors pressed them hard, two, they say, came from the Hyperboreans, Hyperochus and Amadocus, and the third was Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.”
- with Pyrrhus (son of Achilles) (They fought together as warriors against the Galati.) “three mighty warriors pressed them hard, two, they say, came from the Hyperboreans, Hyperochus and Amadocus, and the third was Pyrrhus, the son of Achilles.”
Book 10 · Chapter 12
- with Demo (Hyperochus recorded an account concerning Demo.) “Hyperochus, a native of Cumæ, has recorded that a woman called Demo, of Cumæ in the Opican district, delivered oracles after Herophile and in a similar manner”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.