Inachos

Family: Argos · Role: king of Argos · First appears: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1

Life events

• Inachos drove Io forth from her home after consulting the god at Delphi.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1 · 📍 Argos)
  • With: Io
  • “And Inachos, sending to the God at Delphi, was told to drive Io forth from her home.”
• Prometheus reveals Io's identity and explains that Zeus's love and Hera's hatred caused her wanderings.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 3)
  • With: Prometheus Io Zeus Hera
  • “Daughter of Inachos, who warmed the heart Of Zeus with love, and now through Hera's hate Is tried, perforce, with wanderings over-long?”
• Inachos expels Io after Loxias’ oracle commands him to drive her from home.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 4)
  • With: Io Apollo
  • “And he, by Loxias' oracles induced, Thrust me, against his will, against mine too, And drove me from my home;”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 1

• child: Io “Zeus loved Io, the daughter of Inachos, king of Argos”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 4

• mentor: Apollo (Loxias's oracle commands Inachos what to do.) “At last a clear word came to Inachos Charging him plainly, and commanding him To thrust me from my country and my home, To stray at large to utmost bounds of earth; And, should he gainsay, that the fiery bolt Of Zeus should come and sweep away his race. And he, by Loxias' oracles induced,”
• with Zeus (Zeus coerces Inachos by threatening his race.) “And, should he gainsay, that the fiery bolt Of Zeus should come and sweep away his race.”

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