A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Ὑψεύς), a son of Peneius, and the Naiad Creusa, or Phillyra, the daughter of Asopus, was king of the Lapithae, and married to Chlidanope, by whom he became the father of Cyrene, Alcaea, Themisto, and Astyageia. (Pind. P. 9.13, &c.; Apollod. 1.9.2; Diod. 4.69; Paus. 9.34.5.) Another personage of this name occurs in Ovid (Ov. Met. 5.99).

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