Aeropus

Family: Arcadians · Role: father of Echemus · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 41

According to the Tegean legend, Aerope, daughter of Cepheus, died in childbirth at Cresium, and her son Aeropus continued to nurse from her after her death. The people said Ares had caused this miraculous nourishment, and named the boy Aeropus.

Later accounts identify Aeropus as the father of Echemus, who became king of the Arcadians. One genealogy gives Echemus as the son of Aeropus, son of Cepheus, son of Aleus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Aeropus was born and continued nursing from his dead mother.(Book 8 · Chapter 44 · 📍 Cresium)
  • With: Aerope
  • “the baby still clung to his mother though she was dead, and sucked from her breasts a plentiful supply of milk”
• The boy was named Aeropus because Ares caused the miraculous nourishment.(Book 8 · Chapter 44 · 📍 Cresium)
  • With: Ares
  • “and as Ares had caused this they called the god Aphneus, and the boy was called they say Aeropus.”

Book 1 · Chapter 41

• child: Echemus (Parent-to-child.) “the Arcadian Echemus, the son of Aeropus”

Book 8 · Chapter 5

• child: Echemus “Echemus, the son of Aeropus the son of Cepheus the son of Aleus, became king of the Arcadians.”
• parent: Cepheus “Echemus, the son of Aeropus the son of Cepheus the son of Aleus, became king of the Arcadians.”

Book 8 · Chapter 44

• parent: Aerope “she died in childbirth, and the baby still clung to his mother though she was dead, and sucked from her breasts a plentiful supply of milk, and as Ares had caused this they called the god Aphneus, and the boy was called they say Aeropus.”
• with Ares (Ares was said to have caused the event associated with Aeropus's naming.) “as Ares had caused this they called the god Aphneus, and the boy was called they say Aeropus.”
• parent: Ares (The passage associates Ares with the birth of Aeropus and identifies the boy as the child born to Aerope.) “For according to the legend of the people of Tegea Ares had an intrigue with Aerope, the daughter of Cepheus the son of Aleus, and she died in childbirth, and the baby still clung to his mother though she was dead, and sucked from her breasts a plentiful supply of milk, and as Ares had caused this they called the god Aphneus, and the boy was called they say Aeropus.”

Book 8 · Chapter 45

• child: Echemus “Echemus of Tegea, the son of Aeropus”

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