Hyperes

Family: Trœzen · Role: king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 30

Hyperes was said to be a son of Poseidon and Alcyone, alongside his brother Anthas. Together, Hyperes and Anthas built the cities of Hyperea and Anthea. After Hyperes and Anthas, Aetius, Anthas’s son, succeeded them in the kingdom.

Relationship record

Life events

• Hyperes and Anthas built the cities called Hyperea and Anthea.(Book 2 · Chapter 30 · 📍 Hyperea and Anthea)
  • With: Anthas
  • “till Hyperes and Anthas, who they say were the sons of Poseidon by Alcyone the daughter of Atlas, and built the cities in that country called Hyperea and Anthea.”

Book 2 · Chapter 30

• parent: Poseidon “Hyperes and Anthas, who they say were the sons of Poseidon by Alcyone the daughter of Atlas”
• parent: Alcyone “Hyperes and Anthas, who they say were the sons of Poseidon by Alcyone the daughter of Atlas”
• siblings with Anthas “Hyperes and Anthas, who they say were the sons of Poseidon by Alcyone the daughter of Atlas”
• younger kin: Aetius (Hyperes was Aetius's uncle.) “Aetius the son of Anthas, succeeding his father and uncle in the kingdom”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.