[2] The name Hyperéchios is derived from the Greek hyperéchein [hyperéchō], meaning, ‘to be above,’ ‘to rise over,’ or ‘to transcend.’[2] Very little is known about Hyperechios.
Based on his writings, Vivian (2024) deduces that he was from an upper-middle class Greek-speaking family and lived close to an urban setting.
He likely lived in a coastal city, which could have been Alexandria, Ashkelon, or even Tyre.
Hyperechios would have lived sometime between the late 300s and the Council of Chalcedon in 451 A.D.[2] The Exhortation to the Monks (Greek: Παραίνεσις Ασκητών, romanized: Paraínesis Askētȏn) is an alphabetically organized compilation of 160 maxims from Hyperechios.
The Greek text of the Exhortation is can be found in the Patrologia Graeca (volume 79, pp.