Epaphus

Family: Egyptian · Role: king · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.1

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Epaphus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Epaphus)

Life events

• Io recovered her original form in Egypt and gave birth to Epaphus beside the Nile.(Apollodorus, Library 2.1 · 📍 Nile)
  • With: Io
  • “until at last she came to Egypt , where she recovered her original form and gave birth to a son Epaphus beside the river Nile .”

Apollodorus, Library 2.1

• parent: Io “where she recovered her original form and gave birth to a son Epaphus beside the river Nile.”
• married with Memphis “Epaphus married Memphis , daughter of Nile , founded and named the city of Memphis after her, and begat a daughter Libya”
• child: Libya “Epaphus married Memphis , daughter of Nile , founded and named the city of Memphis after her, and begat a daughter Libya”
• parent: Zeus “she came to Egypt , where she recovered her original form and gave birth to a son Epaphus”
• enemies with Hera “Him Hera besought the Curetes to make away with”

Apollodorus, Library 2.5

• child: Lysianassa (Lysianassa is the daughter of Epaphus.) “Lysianassa, daughter of Epaphus.”

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