Apis

Family: Sicyonian mythology · Role: son of Telchis · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 5

In Book 2, Chapter 5, Apis is named as the son of Telchis and father of Thelxion. In Book 5, Chapter 1, he is described as the son of Jason and a native of Pallantium in Arcadia; at the funeral games for Azan, Ætolus accidentally killed him with his chariot.

Afterward, Apis’s sons indicted Ætolus for their father’s involuntary murder, and he fled the Peloponnese.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ætolus fled the Peloponnese after accidentally killing Apis at funeral games.(Book 5 · Chapter 1 · 📍 Peloponnese)
  • With: Ætolus
  • “And Ætolus, the king after Epeus, had to flee from the Peloponnese, because the sons of Apis indicted him for the involuntary murder of their father.”

Book 2 · Chapter 5

• parent: Telchis (parent->child) “And they say that the son of Ægialeus was Europs, and the son of Europs Telchis, and the son of Telchis Apis.”
• child: Thelxion (parent->child) “And the son of Apis was Thelxion, and the son of Thelxion was Ægyrus, and his son was Thurimachus, and the son of Thurimachus was Leucippus,”

Book 5 · Chapter 1

• with Ætolus (Ætolus accidentally killed Apis.) “For Apis the son of Jason, a native of Pallantium in Arcadia, was killed by Ætolus’ driving over him in his chariot at the funeral games in memory of Azan.”
• parent: Jason “For Apis the son of Jason, a native of Pallantium in Arcadia, was killed by Ætolus’ driving over him in his chariot at the funeral games in memory of Azan.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.