Hierax
Ἱέραξ
(Ἱέραξ).
1. A musician of the Mythic period, before the Trojan war. He is said to have invented the Hieracian measure, νόμος ἱεράκιος, and to have been the friend and disciple of Olympus the musician. He died young. (Pollax, 4.10; Fabr. Bibl. Gr. vol. i. pp. 136 and 726.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.