Hierax

A musician of the mythic period, before the Trojan war. He is said to have invented the Hieracian measure, νόμος ἱεράκιος, and to have been the friend and disciple of Olympus the musician. He died young.

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References

Sources

  • Fabricius. Bibliotheca Graeca, Vol. 1, pp. 136 and 726.
  • Pollax, iv, 10.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.