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Hyperenor

Ὑπερήνωρ

(Ὑπερήνωρ), one of the Spartae, or the men that grew up from the dragon's teeth sown by Cadmus, was worshipped as a hero at Thebes. (Apollod. 3.4.1; Paus. 9.5.1; Hyg. Fab. 178.) There are two other mythical personages of this name, one a son of Poseidon and Alcyone (Apollod. 3.10.1), and the other a son of the Trojan Panthous, who was slain by Menelaus. (Hom. Il. 14.516, 17.24.)

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.