Ischys
Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Elatus · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 26
In Book 2, Chapter 26, Ischys is named as the son of Elatus and as the man with whom Coronis lay while pregnant with Æsculapius. After Artemis killed Coronis for betraying Apollo, Hermes rescued the child from the funeral pyre.
In Book 8, Chapter 4, Ischys is listed among Elatus’s five sons, alongside Æpytus, Pereus, Cyllen and Stymphelus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Artemis killed Coronis for betraying Apollo, while Hermes rescued Æsculapius from the flames.(Book 2 · Chapter 26)
- With: Coronis Artemis Hermes Apollo Æsculapius
- “she was put to death by Artemis who thus punished her unfaithfulness to Apollo, and when the funeral pyre was already lighted Hermes is said to have plucked the child from the flame”
Book 2 · Chapter 26
- with Coronis (Ischys and Coronis had an affair.) “Coronis, when pregnant with Æsculapius, lay with Ischys the son of Elatus”
- parent: Elatus “Ischys the son of Elatus”
Book 8 · Chapter 4
- parent: Elatus “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
- siblings with Æpytus (son of Elatus) “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
- siblings with Pereus “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
- siblings with Cyllen “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
- siblings with Stymphelus “Elatus had five sons, Æpytus and Pereus and Cyllen and Ischys and Stymphelus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.