Hypsus

Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Lycaon · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 3

In Book 8, Chapter 3, Hypsus is named as a son of Lycaon and as one of the brothers of Nyctimus, who was the eldest son and succeeded to their father’s power. Hypsus built Melæneæ, Hypsus, Thyræum, and Hæmoniæ.

Relationship record

Book 8 · Chapter 3

• parent: Lycaon “And Hypsus built Melæneæ and Hypsus and Thyræum and Hæmoniæ”
• siblings with Nyctimus “Nyctimus was the eldest son of Lycaon and succeeded to all his power, and his brothers built cities where each fancied”

Book 8 · Chapter 35

• parent: Lycaon (Lycaon was Hypsus's father.) “I have previously shewn that Thyræus and Hypsus were sons of Lycaon.”

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