Epaphus

Family: Divine · Role: son of Io and Jupiter · First appears: Fable 17

Life events

Epaphus is believed to be born to Io from Jupiter’s divine seed.(Fable17)
- With: Io Jupiter
- “To her, at length, Epaphus[113] is believed to have been born from the seed of great Jove,”
Epaphus challenges Phaëton’s claimed divine parentage and calls his father imaginary.(Fable17)
- With: Phaëton
- “Thou, {like} a madman, believest thy mother in all things, and art puffed up with the conceit of an imaginary father.”

parent: Io (Epaphus is described as born to Io; the parenthetical pronoun refers to Io.) “To her, at length, Epaphus[113] is believed to have been born from the seed of great Jove, and throughout the cities he possesses temples joined to {those of} his parent.”
parent: Jupiter (Jove is an epithet of Jupiter.) “To her, at length, Epaphus[113] is believed to have been born from the seed of great Jove, and throughout the cities he possesses temples joined to {those of} his parent.”
rivals with Phaëton “Phaëton, sprung from the Sun, was equal to him in spirit and in years; whom formerly, as he uttered great boasts, and yielded not {at all} to him, and proud of his father, Phœbus, the grandson of Inachus could not endure; and said, ‘Thou, {like} a madman, believest thy mother in all things, and art puffed up with the conceit of an imaginary father.’”

enemies with Phaëton “Phaëton, insulted by Epaphus, goes to the Palace of Apollo, to beseech him to give some token that he is his son.”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.