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Hypeirochus

Ὑπείροχος

(Ὑπείροχος), the name of two mythical personages, one a son of Priam, was killed by Odysseus (Hom. Il. 11.335; Apollod. 3.12.5), the other the father of Itymoneus, who is hence called Hypeirochides. (Hom. Il. 11.672, &c.)

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.