Epaphus

First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Epaphus is named as the child of Zeus, from whom “sprang the dark Libyans, and high-souled Aethiopians, and the Underground-folk and feeble Pygmies.” Earth is also said to have borne peoples to Epaphus, including Aethiopians, Libyans and mare-milking Scythians.

Relationship record

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 21–40

• parent: Zeus “For verily Epaphus was the child of the almighty Son of Cronos, and from him sprang the dark Libyans, and high-souled Aethiopians, and the Underground-folk and feeble Pygmies.”
• parent: Earth “Huge Earth bare these to Epaphus—soothsaying people, knowing seercraft by the will of Zeus the lord of oracles, but deceivers, to the end that men whose thought passes their utterance might be subject to the gods and suffer harm—Aethiopians and Libyans and mare-milking Scythians.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.