Epaphus

Also known as: Epaphos · Family: Gods · Role: son of Io and Zeus · First appears: Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 5

Life events

• Io will bear Epaphos, Zeus’s child, at Canôbos.(Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 5 · 📍 Canôbos)
  • With: Zeus Io
  • “And thou then shalt bear a child Of Zeus begotten, Epaphos, “Touch-born,””
• Io gave birth to Epaphos after Zeus touched her.(Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 1 · 📍 Egypt)
  • With: Io Zeus
  • “When Io, after many wanderings, had found refuge in Egypt, and having been touched by Zeus, had given birth to Epaphos”
• Epaphos and his descendants ruled the region of Canôpos.(Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 1 · 📍 Canôpos)
  • “And in the fifth generation there were two brothers, Danaos and Ægyptos, the sons of Belos, and the former had fifty daughters and the latter fifty sons, and Ægyptos sought the daughters of Danaos in marriage for his sons. And they, looking on the marriage as unholy, and hating those who wooed them, took flight and came to Argos, where Pelasgos then ruled as king, as to the land whence Io, from whom they sprang, had come.”
• Zeus begets Epaphos through divine touch.(Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 3)
  • With: Zeus
  • “Zeus with his touch, an offspring then begets.”
• Epaphos begets Libya.(Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 3)
  • With: Libya
  • “Libya, that gains her fame from greatest land.”
• Io bears Epaphos, who is recognized as Zeus-born.(Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 4)
  • With: Zeus Io
  • “And with new burden big, Not falsely 'Zeus-born' named, She bare a son that grew in faultless growth,”

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound — Scene 5

• parent: Io “Touch only—and thou then shalt bear a child Of Zeus begotten, Epaphos, “Touch-born,””
• parent: Zeus “Touch only—and thou then shalt bear a child Of Zeus begotten, Epaphos, “Touch-born,””

Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 1

• younger kin: Danaus “When Io, after many wanderings, had found refuge in Egypt, and having been touched by Zeus, had given birth to Epaphos, it came to pass that he and his descendants ruled over the region of Canôpos, near one of the seven mouths of Neilos. And in the fifth generation there were two brothers, Danaos and Ægyptos, the sons of Belos”
• younger kin: Aegyptus “When Io, after many wanderings, had found refuge in Egypt, and having been touched by Zeus, had given birth to Epaphos, it came to pass that he and his descendants ruled over the region of Canôpos, near one of the seven mouths of Neilos. And in the fifth generation there were two brothers, Danaos and Ægyptos, the sons of Belos”

Aeschylus, The Suppliants — Scene 3

• child: Libya “King. [What offspring then did Epaphos beget?] Chor. Libya, that gains her fame from greatest land.”

Euripides, The Phœnician Virgins — Scene 4

• elder kin: Io “And thee, sprung of old from our ancestor Io, Epaphus, O progeny of Jove”

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