Baton

Family: Argos · Role: charioteer · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 3.6

Life events

• Zeus splits the earth; Amphiaraus vanishes and becomes immortal.(Apollodorus, Library 3.6 · 📍 the river Ismenus)
  • With: Zeus Amphiaraus
  • “Amphiaraus fled beside the river Ismenus, and before Periclymenus could wound him in the back, Zeus cleft the earth by throwing a thunderbolt, and Amphiaraus vanished with his chariot and his charioteer Baton, or, as some say, Elato; and Zeus made him immortal.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.6

• with Amphiaraus (Baton was Amphiaraus's charioteer.) “Amphiaraus vanished with his chariot and his charioteer Baton,”

Also listed in Argos — Minor Figures

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