Hyperion
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Hyperion may refer to:
Greek mythology
Hyperion (mythology), a list of figures in Greek mythology, including:
Hyperion (Titan), one of the twelve Titans
Hyperion, a byname of the Sun, Helios
Science
Hyperion (moon), a moon of the planet Saturn
Hyperion (beetle), a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae
Hyperion (tree), a coast redwood in Northern California and the world's tallest known living tree
Hyperion proto-supercluster, a supercluster of galaxy groups discovered in 2018
Project Hyperion (interstellar), preliminary study of a crewed interstellar starship or generation ship
Literature
Hyperion (Hölderlin novel), a 1799 book by Friedrich Hölderlin
Hyperion (poem), 1819, by John Keats
Hyperion (Longfellow novel), an 1839 book by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hyperion (Simmons novel), 1989, by Dan Simmons
Hyperion Cantos, the series of novels that started with Hyperion
Hyperion (magazine), a 1908–1910 German literary journal
Hyperion (character), the name of several characters in the Marvel Comics universe
Music
Hyperion (Gesaffelstein album) or the title song, 2019
Hyperion (Manticora album), 2002
Hyperion (Marilyn Crispell, Peter Brötzmann and Hamid Drake album) or the title song, 1995
Hyperion (EP), by Krallice, or the title song, 2016
Hyperion, an album by St.
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