Inachus
Family: mythological · Role: father of Io · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 25
In Book 1, Chapter 25, Inachus is named as the father of Io. In Book 2, Chapter 15, he is described as the father of Phoroneus, though the account says Inachus “was not a man but a river.”
At Argolis, Inachus, Cephisus and Asterion judged the dispute between Poseidon and Hera, awarding the land to Hera; Poseidon then took away their water. In the same chapter, Inachus is said to have given his name to the river and sacrificed to Hera. In Book 2, Chapter 16, another account names him as the father of Mycene.
Relationship record
Life events
- Inachus, Cephisus, and Asterion awarded the land to Hera, so Poseidon removed their water.(Book 2 · Chapter 15 · 📍 Argolis)
- With: Cephisus Asterion (river god) Poseidon Hera
- “and that he and Cephisus and Asterion were the arbitrators between Poseidon and Hera in their dispute about the land: and when they judged that it was Hera’s, then Poseidon took away all their water.”
- Inachus gave his name to the river and sacrificed to Hera.(Book 2 · Chapter 15 · 📍 Argolis)
- With: Hera
- “they say that Inachus the king gave his name to the river, and sacrificed to Hera.”
Book 1 · Chapter 25
- child: Io (Inachus is Io's father.) “Io the daughter of Inachus”
Book 2 · Chapter 15
- child: Phoroneus “They also say that Phoroneus was the first mortal in this land, and that Inachus his father was not a man but a river:”
- with Poseidon (Inachus was an arbitrator in the dispute.) “and that he and Cephisus and Asterion were the arbitrators between Poseidon and Hera in their dispute about the land;”
- with Hera (Inachus was an arbitrator in the dispute.) “and that he and Cephisus and Asterion were the arbitrators between Poseidon and Hera in their dispute about the land;”
Book 2 · Chapter 16
- child: Mycene “the poem called the Great Eœæ, by Hesiod, represents her as the daughter of Inachus and the wife of Arestor”
Book 2 · Chapter 22
- with Poseidon (Inachus participated in the judgment assigning the land to Hera rather than Poseidon.) “because Inachus and the other arbitrators decided that the land was Hera’s and not his”
- with Hera (Inachus participated in the arbitration awarding the land to Hera.) “Inachus and the other arbitrators decided that the land was Hera’s and not his”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.