Cyllen
Family: Arcadians · Role: son of Elatus · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 4
In Book 8, Chapter 4, Cyllen is named as one of Elatus’s five sons, alongside Æpytus, Pereus, Ischys and Stymphelus. In Chapter 17, the account says that both Cyllene and Hermes received their titles from Cyllen, “the son of Elatus.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Cyllene and Hermes received their titles from Cyllen, son of Elatus.(Book 8 · Chapter 17 · 📍 Cyllene)
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 Ischys “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.”
Book 8 · Chapter 17
- parent: Elatus “Cyllen the son of Elatus.”
- with Hermes (Hermes's title was derived from Cyllen.) “It is clear that both the mountain and god got their title from Cyllen the son of Elatus.”
- with Hermes (Hermes is identified by the title Cyllenian Hermes, derived from Cyllen.) “It is clear that both the mountain and god got their title from Cyllen the son of Elatus.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.