Ascalaphus

Family: underworld · Role: son of Acheron and Gorgyra · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.5

🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Ascalaphus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Ascalaphus)

Life events

• Demeter buried Ascalaphus beneath a heavy rock for witnessing against Persephone.(Apollodorus, Library 1.5 · 📍 Hades)
  • With: Demeter Acheron Gorgyra
  • “and because Ascalaphus, son of Acheron and Gorgyra, bore witness against her, Demeter laid a heavy rock on him in Hades.”

Apollodorus, Library 1.5

• parent: Acheron “because Ascalaphus, son of Acheron and Gorgyra, bore witness against her”
• parent: Gorgyra “because Ascalaphus, son of Acheron and Gorgyra, bore witness against her”
• with Demeter (Demeter punished Ascalaphus.) “Demeter laid a heavy rock on him in Hades.”
• with Persephone (Ascalaphus testified against Persephone.) “because Ascalaphus, son of Acheron and Gorgyra, bore witness against her”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• siblings with Ialmenus “Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Ares”
• parent: Ares “Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, sons of Ares”

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.