Hyperes

In Greek mythology, the name Hyperes (Ὑπέρης, gen. Ὑπέρητος) may refer to:

• Hyperes, a son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone, and brother of Anthas. The brothers reigned over what later became Troezen and were founders of the cities Hyperea and Anthea respectively.^[1] Two brands of Troezenian wine, Anthedonias and Hypereias, were believed to have been named after certain "Anthus and Hyperus", who apparently are the same figures.^[2] See also Hyperenor.

• Hyperes, son of Melas and Eurycleia. He lived by a spring which was named Hypereia after him.^[3]

• Hyperes, a son of Lycaon and the eponym of Hyperesia.^[4]

References

1. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2. 30. 8
2. Athenaeus, Banquet of The Learned, 1. 31C, referring to Aristotle. Cf. also Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, 19, for citation of likely the same passage from Aristotle, and a story of a brother and a sister, Anthus and Hypera, taken from Mnasigeiton.
3. Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 4. 221c
4. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Hyperēsia