Hyperbius

Of Corinth, a mythical artist, to whom, in conjunction with Agrolas or Euryalus, the invention of brick walls is ascribed. Another tradition made him the inventor of the potter's wheel.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 28.3, Bekker's text.
  • Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia vii, 56.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes xiii.
  • 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.