Hippodamas

Hippodamas (Ἱπποδάμας, gen. Ἱπποδάμαντος) may refer to:

Greek mythology

• Hippodamas, father of Perimele. He pushed his daughter off a cliff when he discovered that she was having a love affair with Achelous.^[1]

• Hippodamas, son of Achelous and Perimede, daughter of Aeolus, brother of Orestes (not the same as Orestes, son of Agamemnon); he was the father of Euryte.^[2]

• Hippodamas, a son of Priam of Troy.^[3] He was killed by Ajax the Great.^[4][5]

• Hippodamas, another Trojan, was killed by Achilles.^[6]

Historical persons

• Hippodamas of Salamis or Hippodamas of Samos, "author of a hexametrical distich about the origin and the opposite nature of gods and men, handed down to us by Iambl. VP 82."^[7]
• Hippodamas, "of uncertain identity,"^[8] named as a critic of Plato in Dionysius of Halicarnassus' Letter to Pompey.

See also

• Hippodamus

References

1. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8. 591 ff
2. Hesiod, Catalogue of Women fr. 10(a); Pseudo-Apollodorus Bibliotheca 1.7.3, 1.7.10
3. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3. 12. 5
4. Dictys Cretensis, 3. 7
5. Hyginus, Fabulae, 113, where he is called "Hippodamus"
6. Homer, Iliad, 20. 401-406
7. Brill’s New Pauly, s.v. Hippodamas
8. W. Rhys Roberts, Dionysius of Halicarnassus: The Three Literary Letters, Cambridge UP, 1901, p. 169