Hyrieus
Ὑριεύς
(Ὑριεύς), a son of Poseidon and Alcyone, was king of Hyria in Boeotia, and married to the nymph Clonia, by whom lie became the father of Nycteus, Lycus, and Orion. (Apollod. 3.10.1; Hyg. Fab. 195; Schol. ad Hom. Il. 18.486.) Respecting his treasures see AGAMEDES.
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.