Aipytos (son of Elatos)
Aipytos ( Greek Αἴπυτος ) is a hero of Arcadia in Greek mythology .
In most of the sagas, Aipytos appears as the son of Elatos . According to Hesiod , he was the father of Glesenor and Peirithoos . After Pindar he ruled as king over Phaisane on the Alpheios in Arcadia. When Kleitor died with no descendants, Aipytus became king of all of Arcadia.
Aipytos received from the laconic heroine Pitane, whose daughter of Poseidon , Euadne , for education. She became pregnant by Apollon . Aiyptos asked the oracle of Delphi for information about the father of the expected child and was satisfied with the answer received, but found the child already born and abandoned by Euadne after his return. Through divine guidance he discovered the boy, who was meanwhile being fed by two snakes, and raised him. The boy called Iamos later became the mythical ancestor of the visionary family of the Iamids in Olympia .
Homer was already familiar with the alleged grave of Aipytos on Mount Sepia near Kyllene , where he died while hunting from the bite of a poisonous snake.
literature
- Georg Wentzel : Aipytos 2) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1045.
Remarks
- ↑ Hesiod , Fragment 138 ed. Rzach; Pindar , Olympia 6, 33; Pausanias 8, 4, 4; after Hesychios of Alexandria , s. Aipytion , on the other hand, was Aipytus' son of Arkas .
- ↑ Hesiod, Fragment 138 ed. Rzach.
- ^ Pindar, Olympia 6:33 .
- ↑ Pausanias 8, 4, 3 and 8, 4, 7.
- ^ Pindar, Olympia 6, 28ff. with scholias.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 2, 603; Pausanias 8, 16, 2f.