Arcas

Role: babe · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.8

🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Arcas)

Life events

• Zeus gave Arcas to Maia to raise and transformed Callisto into the star called the Bear.(Apollodorus, Library 3.8 · 📍 Arcadia)
  • With: Zeus Maia Callisto
  • “When Callisto perished, Zeus snatched the babe, named it Arcas, and gave it to Maia to bring up in Arcadia ; and Callisto he turned into a star and called it the Bear.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.8

• guardian: Maia “gave it to Maia to bring up in Arcadia”
• with Zeus (Zeus takes Callisto's babe after her encounter with him.) “Zeus snatched the babe, named it Arcas”
• parent: Callisto (Arcas is identified as Callisto's babe in the surrounding passage.) “Zeus snatched the babe, named it Arcas”
• parent: Zeus “When Callisto perished, Zeus snatched the babe, named it Arcas”

Apollodorus, Library 3.9

• child: Elatus “Arcas had two sons, Elatus and Aphidas, by Leanira, daughter of Amyclas, or by Meganira, daughter of Croco, or, according to Eumelus, by a nymph Chrysopelia.”
• child: Aphidas “Arcas had two sons, Elatus and Aphidas, by Leanira, daughter of Amyclas, or by Meganira, daughter of Croco, or, according to Eumelus, by a nymph Chrysopelia.”

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