-
describe this
story either do not
mention Hippasus by name (e.g. Pappus) or
alternatively tell that
Hippasus drowned because he
revealed how to construct...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Hippasus or
Hippasos (Ancient Gr****: Ἴππασος) is the name of
fourteen characters.
Hippasus, son of King
Eurytus of
Oechalia and one...
- was
chosen by lot to
offer a
sacrifice to Dionysus, gave up her own son
Hippasus, whom the
sisters tore to pieces. The
sisters afterwards roamed over the...
- ratios.'
Another legend states that
Hippasus was
merely exiled for this revelation.
Whatever the
consequence to
Hippasus himself, his
discovery posed a very...
- Eurystheus. Ceyx's son
Hippasus accompanied Heracles on his
campaign against King
Eurytus of Oechalia,
during which Hippasus was
slain in battle. Ceyx...
- (Neopaganism), a
neopagan god
named for the Gr****
figure Ceyx (father of
Hippasus), an
unrelated figure in Gr**** mythology, ally to
Heracles This disambiguation...
- Thebes. Hippomedon,
father of Ereuthalion. Hippomedon, son of
Maenalus (or
Hippasus) and the
nymph Ocyrhoe, a
defender of Troy
killed by Neoptolemus. Hippomedon...
-
Diogenes Laërtius
quotes from an
undoubtedly spurious letter from
Lysis to
Hippasus as an
authority for some
statements concerning Damo. Pausanias, ix. 13...
-
certainty about the time or cir****stances of this discovery, but the name of
Hippasus of
Metapontum is
often mentioned. For a while, the
Pythagoreans treated...
-
Pythagorean Hippasus of Metapontum, who
produced a (most
likely geometrical)
proof of the
irrationality of the
square root of 2. The
story goes that
Hippasus discovered...
