Hyes

The moist or fertilizing god, occurs like Hyetius, as a surname of Zeus, as the sender of rain.1 Under the name of Hyetius, the god had an altar at Argos, and a statue in the grove of Trophonius, near Lebadeia.2

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References

Notes

  1. Hesychius, s.v. ὕης.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 19.7; ix, 39.3.

Source

  • 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.