Brill’s New Pauly

Get access

Hypanis
(142 words)

(Ὕπανις; Hýpanis).

[German version]

[1] River in the Ukraine

River in the Ukraine (modern Bug). According to Hdt. 4,47,52 it flows from west to east, next to  Ister (Danube) and  Tyras (Dniestr) the third of the Scythian rivers that flows to the Pontus. Further sources: Hdt. 4,17,18; Skymni periegesis V. 804 (= GGM 1,229); Str. 2,107; 7, 298; 306; Ptol. 3,5,2; Anonymi periplus Ponti Euxini 60 (= GGM 1,417); Steph. Byz. s.v.  Borysthenes; Mela 2,6; Plin. HN 4,83f.

Cite this page
Brentjes, Burchard (Berlin) and Treidler, Hans (Berlin), “Hypanis”, in: Brill’s New Pauly, Antiquity volumes edited by: Hubert Cancik and , Helmuth Schneider, English Edition by: Christine F. Salazar, Classical Tradition volumes edited by: Manfred Landfester, English Edition by: Francis G. Gentry. Consulted online on 29 November 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1574-9347_bnp_e519520>
First published online: 2006
First print edition: 9789004122598, 20110510



▲   Back to top   ▲