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Metamorphoses
Ovid

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Hymettus, Hymettos
A mountain in Attica south of Athens. It was famous for its wild-flower pasture for bees (See Pausanias I 32 i.) and had a shrine and statue of Zeus of Rain and Far-seeing. (The long Hymettos ridge bounds the plain of Attica on the east, made up of bluish-grey Hymettian marble overlying Pentelic marble, which was worked in ancient times. The hills were then heavily forested.)
Bk VII:661-758. Aurora sees Cephalus from there.
Bk X:243-297. Its bees’ wax is used for moulding casts for statues etc.

Hypaepae
A town in Lydia. The home of Arachne. Bk VI:1-25
Bk XI:146-171. It is overlooked by Mount Tmolus.

Hypanis
A river in Sarmatia. A main tributary of the Dnieper. The waters are sweet in their higher reaches, but are joined by a bitter stream flowing out of Scythia. See Herodotus IV 52. Bk XV:259-306.

Hyperboreüs, Hyperborean
Belonging to the extreme north. The Hyperboreans, a mythical people living beyond the north wind. They cover their bodies with feathers by plunging nine times in Minerva’s pool. Herodotus has some interesting chapters on the Hyperboreans in IV 32-36. In 31 he speculates on the confusion of feathers with snowflakes. (See also Robert Graves ‘The White Goddess’ p. 284) Bk XV:307-360.

Hyperion (1)
A Titan, the son of Coelus and Terra, and father of the sun-god. Bk IV:214-255.

Hyperion (2)
The Sun god himself. Heliopolis in Egypt, Hyperion’s city.
Bk VIII:547-610. The sun.
Bk XV:391-417. The sun-god at Heliopolis, to which the phoenix flies.

Hypseus
A companion of Phineus killed by Lyncides. Bk V:74-106.

Hypsipyle
The daughter of Thoas, king of Lemnos.
Bk XIII:399-428. Ulysses sails for the island to bring back the arrows of Hercules. Thoas was king there when the Lemnian women murdered their menfolk because of their adultery with Thracian girls. His life was spared because his daughter Hypsipyle set him adrift in an oarless boat.
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