Hipponous

In Greek mythology, Hipponous (Ἱππόνοος) referred to several people:

• Hipponous, father of Capaneus and Periboea with Astynome.^[1] He was son of Iocles, grandson of Astacus and great-grandson of Hermes and Astabe, a daughter of Peneus.^[2]
• Hipponous, one of the fifty sons of Priam,^[3] the last Trojan whom Achilles killed before his death.^[4]
• Hipponous, an Achaean warrior killed by Hector.^[5]
• Hipponous, son of Triballus. He was the father of Polyphonte by Thrassa, the daughter of Ares and Tereine.^[6]
• Hipponous and Adrastus, two otherwise unknown sons of Heracles, were said to have thrown themselves into fire in obedience to an oracle of Apollo.^[7]
• Hipponous, another name for Bellerophon.^[8]

References

1. Bibliotheca 1. 8. 4
2. Scholia on Euripides, Phoenician Women, 133
3. Bibliotheca 3. 12. 5
4. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy, 3. 155
5. Homer, Iliad, 11. 303
6. Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 21
7. Hyginus, Fabulae, 242; the context is obscure and perhaps corrupt.
8. Pindar, Olympian Ode 13. 66