Hypseus
Ὑψεύς
(Ὑψεύς), a son of Peneius, and the Naiad Creusa, or Phillyra, the daughter of Asopus, was king of the Lapithae, and married to Chlidanope, by whom he became the father of Cyrene, Alcaea, Themisto, and Astyageia. (Pind. P. 9.13, &c.; Apollod. 1.9.2; Diod. 4.69; Paus. 9.34.5.) Another personage of this name occurs in Ovid (Ov. Met. 5.99).
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.