Elatus

There were eight figures named Elatus /ˈɛlətəs/ or Élatos (Ἔλατος) in Greek mythology.

• Elatus, a Lapith chieftain of Larissa, Thessaly. He was the father, by Hippeia, of Caeneus,^[1] Polyphemus,^[2][3] Ischys who was beloved by Coronis,^[4][5] and a daughter Dotia, possibly the eponym of Dotion (Dotium) in Thessaly^[6] (see also Dotis).
• Elatus, a Centaur, killed during a battle with Heracles by a poisoned arrow that passed through his arm and continued to wound Chiron in the knee.^[7]
  • The asteroid 31824 Elatus is named after this figure.
• Elatus, one of the suitors of Penelope, killed by Eumaeus.^[8]
• Elatus, a son of Arcas, brother of Apheidas and Azan. He was allotted by Arcas the region of then-nameless Mount Cyllene as his domain, but afterwards migrated to the region which later became known as Phocis, and assisted the local inhabitants in the war against the Phlegyans; he was renowned as founder and eponym of the city Elatea.^[9] An image of him was carved on a stele in the marketplace of Elatea.^[10] He married Laodice (daughter of Cinyras) and became by her father of Stymphalus, Pereus, Aepytus, Ischys, and Cyllen.^[11]
• Elatus, an ally of the Trojans from Pedasus, killed by Agamemnon.^[12]
• Elatus or Elaton, a charioteer of Amphiaraus,^[13] otherwise known as Baton.
• Elatus, father of Euanippe, who was the mother of Polydorus by Hippomedon.^[14]
• Elatus, a son of Icarius and father of Taenarus by Erymede.^[15]
• Elatus the seer, father of Ampycus.^[16]

References

1. Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12. 497
2. Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 40
3. Hyginus, Fabulae, 14
4. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 10. 3
5. Scholia on Pindar, Pythian Ode 3. 31 (55)
6. Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. Dotion
7. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 2. 5. 4
8. Homer, Odyssey, 22. 268
9. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 4. 4.
10. Pausanias, Description of Greece, 10. 34. 6
11. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 9. 1; Pausanias, Description of Greece, 8. 4. 4.
12. Homer, Iliad, 6. 33
13. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, 3. 6. 8
14. Hyginus, Fabulae, 71
15. Scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 1. 120
16. Hyginus, Fabulae, 128