Hippothoon
Ἱπποθόων
(Ἱπποθόων), an Attic hero, a son of Poseidon and Alope, the daughter of Cercyon. He had a heroum at Athens; and one of the Attic phylae was called after him Hippothoontis. (Demosth. Epitaph. p. 1389; Paus. 1.5.2, 39.3, 38.4.)
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.