Aleus

First appears: Apollodorus, Library 2.7

Life events

• Auge secretly gave birth to Telephus, who was exposed but preserved and raised by shepherds.(Apollodorus, Library 2.7 · 📍 Mount Parthenius)
  • With: Auge Telephus
  • “And she brought forth her babe secretly and deposited it in the precinct of Athena. But the country being wasted by a pestilence, Aleus entered the precinct and on investigation discovered his daughter's motherhood. So he exposed the babe on Mount Parthenius, and by the providence of the gods it was preserved: for a doe that had just cast her fawn gave it suck, and shepherds took up the babe and called it Telephus.”
• Auge was discovered and delivered by Aleus to Nauplius for execution.(Apollodorus, Library 3.9)
  • With: Auge Nauplius
  • “she was detected and delivered by her father to Nauplius to be put to death”

Apollodorus, Library 2.7

• child: Auge (parent->child) “not knowing her to be a daughter of Aleus.”

Apollodorus, Library 3.9

• parent: Aphidas “and Aphidas had a son Aleus and a daughter Stheneboea, who was married to Proetus.”
• child: Cepheus “And Aleus had a daughter Auge and two sons, Cepheus and Lycurgus, by Neaera, daughter of Pereus.”
• child: Lycurgus “And Aleus had a daughter Auge and two sons, Cepheus and Lycurgus, by Neaera, daughter of Pereus.”
• siblings with Stheneboea “Aphidas had a son Aleus and a daughter Stheneboea”

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