Ischys

Family: unknown · Role: wooer · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100

In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Ischys, son of Elatus, had wedded Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas. Later, To Pythian Apollo describes Apollo wooing the daughter of Azan alongside Ischys and other rivals, including Phorbas, Ereutheus, and Leucippus.

Relationship record

Life events

• Ischys had wedded Coronis.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100)
  • With: Coronis
  • “Ischys son of Elatus had wedded Coronis the daughter of Phlegyas of birth divine.”
• Apollo is described as wooing the daughter of Azan alongside several named rivals.(Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
  • With: Apollo the daughter of Azan (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1) Elatius Phorbas Triops Ereutheus Leucippus the wife of Leucippus (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1)
  • “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus.... ((LACUNA)) ....you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 81–100

• married with Coronis “Ischys son of Elatus had wedded Coronis the daughter of Phlegyas of birth divine.”
• parent: Elatius “Ischys son of Elatus had wedded Coronis the daughter of Phlegyas of birth divine.”

Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1

• parent: Elatius “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus.... ((LACUNA)) ....you on foot, he with his chariot, yet he fell not short of Triops.”
• admired: the daughter of Azan (Homeric Hymn III · To Pythian Apollo · Part 1) “Shall I sing of you as wooer and in the fields of love, how you went wooing the daughter of Azan along with god-like Ischys the son of well-horsed Elatius, or with Phorbas sprung from Triops, or with Ereutheus, or with Leucippus and the wife of Leucippus....”

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.