Hippomedon
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 4 anchored passages
in the texts
Phoenissae
Argive captain from Mycenae, one of the seven commanders besieging Thebes, described in the teichoscopia.
by Lerna’s streams he dwells, the lord Hippomedon.
How proud, how fearful to see, like an earth-born giant, with stars engraved on his shield, not resembling mortal race.
Next lord Hippomedon came marching to the Ogygian gates with this device in the middle of his shield:
Suppliants
One of the Seven chiefs, praised by Adrastus for a disciplined, rustic life devoted to Argos.
Such another was Hippomedon, third of all this band;
Oedipus at Colonus
Warrior named among Polyneices' allies against Thebes.
the fourth, Hippomedon, is sent by Talaos, his father;