Epidaurus

Role: eponymous hero · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 26

In Book 2, Chapter 26, Epidaurus is named as the hero from whom the country got its name, though his parentage is given differently by different accounts: the people of Elis call him the son of Pelops, while the Argives and Hesiod’s poem name Argus as his father. The Epidaurians instead make Apollo his father.

Relationship record

Book 2 · Chapter 26

• parent: Pelops (This is the Elis tradition.) “Epidaurus, from whom the country got its name, was, as the people of Elis say, the son of Pelops”
• parent: Argus (This is the Argive tradition.) “but according to the opinion of the Argives, and the poem of Hesiod called The Great Eœæ, the father of Epidaurus was Argus the son of Zeus.”
• parent: Apollo “But the Epidaurians make Epidaurus the son of Apollo.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.