# Hyettus

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For the village in ancient Boeotia, see [Hyettus (Boeotia)](/source/Hyettus_(Boeotia)).

In [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), **Hyettus** (Ancient Greek: Ὕηττος - *Hyettos*) was a native of [Argos](/source/Ancient_Argos) thought to have been the first man ever to have exacted vengeance over adultery: he reputedly killed [Molurus](/source/Molurus), whom he had caught with his wife, and was sent into exile. King [Orchomenus](/source/Orchomenus_(mythology)) of [Boeotia](/source/Boeotia) received him hospitably and assigned to him some land, where the village [Hyettus](/source/Hyettus_(Boeotia)) was subsequently founded and named after him.[1][2]

## Notes

1. [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), *Description of Greece*, 9. 36. 6 - 7, quoting [Hesiod](/source/Hesiod)'s *[Megalai Ehoiai](/source/Megalai_Ehoiai)*

1. [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium) s. v. Ὕηττος

## References

- [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), *Description of Greece* with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. [Online version at the Perseus Digital Library](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160)
- Pausanias, *Graeciae Descriptio.* *3 vols*. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library](http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159).
- [Stephanus of Byzantium](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium), *Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt,* edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. [Online version at the Topos Text Project.](https://topostext.org/work/241)

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