Hypatus

The most high, occurs not only as an epithet of Zeus in poetry,1 but as a real surname of the god. An altar of Zeus Hypatus existed at Athens in front of the Erechtheium; and it was not allowed to offer up to him any thing alive or libations, but only cakes.2

Zeus Hypatus was also worshiped at Sparta,3 and near Glisas in Boeotia.4

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Iliad viii, 31, xix, 258.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 26.6; viii, 2.1.
  3. ibid. iii, 17.3.
  4. ibid. ix, 19.3.

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.