- Information
- region in North Africa
- Cult site of
- 👤 Epaphos (s. of Io) 👤 Io 👤 Osiris
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Epaphos (s. of Io) 👤 Erechtheus 👤 Perseus (Argive) 👤 Proteus (Egyptian) 👤 Heracles (Egyptian) 👤 Oros (Troizenian)
- Place of death of
- 👤 Amphidamas (Egyptian) 👤 Bousiris (Egyptian) 👤 Braisia 👤 Laogora 👤 Orsedice 👤 Phrasios (Cypriot) 👤 Proteus (Egyptian) 👤 Osiris 👤 Aganippe (Egyptian) 👤 Chrysochoas 👤 Horus 👥 the Daughters of Cinyras 👤 Thyestes (Egyptian)
- Place of burial of
- 👤 Osiris
- Settled by
- 👤 Osiris
- Settled from
- 🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians
- Named by
- 👤 Aigyptos (eponym)
- Eponym
- 👤 Aigyptos (eponym)
- Ruled by
- 👤 Aigyptos (eponym) 👤 Belos (Egyptian) 👤 Bousiris (Egyptian) 👤 Cronos 👤 Epaphos (s. of Io) 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Isis 👤 Proteus (Egyptian) 👤 Telegonos (Egyptian) 👤 Helios 👤 Osiris 👤 Aigyptos (s. of Hephaistos) 👤 Garmathone 👤 Horus 👤 Neileus (Egyptian) 👤 Theoclymenos (s. of Proteus) 👤 Dionysos (Egyptian)
- Conquered by
- 👤 Memnon 👤 Ninos (Babylonian) 👤 Ariaios
- Destroyed by
- ⏳ the Flood of Deucalion
- Relics preserved on site
- 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Egypt)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Alexander (Trojan) 👤 Amphidamas (Egyptian) 👤 Anchinoe 👤 Antaios 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Aigyptos (eponym) 👤 Artemis 👤 Athena 👤 Belos (Egyptian) 👤 Bousiris (Egyptian) 👤 Braisia 👤 Cadmos (Theban) 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Cronos 👤 Daidalos 👤 Demeter 👤 Dionysos (Olympian) 👤 Epaphos (s. of Io) 👤 Erechtheus 👤 Hera 👤 Hestia 👤 Oceanos (Titan) 👤 Poseidon 🏺 the Adamantine Sickle of Cronos 👤 Themis 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👤 Gelanor 👥 the Giants 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Isis 👤 Laogora 🌍 Eleusis (Attica) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 🌍 Crete (island) 🌍 Naxos (island) 👤 Typhon 👤 Orpheus 👤 Orsedice 👤 Pan (god) 👤 Helen 👤 Io 👥 the Muses 👤 Perseus (Argive) 👤 Peteos 👤 Phrasios (Cypriot) 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Leto 👤 Maron 👤 Melampous 👤 Memnon 👤 Menelaos 👤 Nereus 👤 Proteus (Egyptian) 👤 Telegonos (Egyptian) 👥 the Titans 👤 Triptolemos 👥 the Lacedaimon Contingent at Troy (attackers) 🏺 the Thunderbolt of Zeus 👥 the Sons of Aigyptos 👥 the Danaids 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 the Peloponnese 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Sidon (Phoinicia) 🌍 Cyprus (island) 👤 the Eidolon of Helen 👤 Helios 🌍 Tauris (Pontos) 🌍 Caria (Asia Minor) 🌍 Lycia (SW Asia Minor) 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🌍 Phrygia 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Rhodes (island) 🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians 👤 Canopos 🌍 Lindos (Rhodes) 🌍 the Ionian Sea 🌍 Illyria 🌍 Mount Haimos (Thrace) 🌍 the Bosporos 🌍 Scythia 🌍 River Nile (Egypt) 🌍 Memphis (Egypt) 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Phoinicia 🌍 Arabia 🌍 Lerna (Argolid) 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Attica 🌍 Nemea (Argolid) 🌍 Delphi (Phocis) 🌍 Cape Malea (Laconia) 🌍 the Hellespont 🌍 River Echedoros (Thrace) 🌍 River Eridanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Thermydrai (Rhodes) 🌍 Mount Caucasos (Pontos) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 🌍 Lydia (Asia Minor) 🌍 Thesprotia 🌍 Cimmerian Bosporos 🌍 the Land of the Hyperboreans 🌍 Cilicia (SE Asia Minor) 🌍 Mount Nysa (unlocatable) ⏳ the Flood of Deucalion 🌍 Cape Sounion (Attica) 🌍 the Argolid (Peloponnese) 🏺 the Statue of Demeter 👤 Danaos 🌍 Media 🏺 the Ship of Danaos 🌍 Icaria (island) 🌍 the Black Sea 🌍 Mount Cybela 🌍 India 🌍 Edonia 🌍 the Troad 🌍 Assyria 🌍 Megara (Argolid) 👤 Myrine 👤 Zephyr 👤 Paieon (healer) 👤 Notos 👥 the Olympian Gods 👤 Heracles (Egyptian) 👤 Lelex (Megarian) 👤 Oros (Troizenian) 🌍 Nauplia (Argolid) 🌍 Cappadocia (Pontos) 🌍 Susa (Persia) 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi 🌍 Apobathmoi (Argolid) 🌍 Macedonia (N. Greece) 🌍 Pamphylia 👤 Mousaios 👤 Polydamna 👤 Thon 👤 Son of Castor (Odyssean persona) 🌍 Cisthene (unlocatable) 👥 the Griffons 👥 the Arimaspians 🌍 River Plouton (unlocatable) 🌍 Mount Libanos (Syria) 👤 Anubis 👤 Osiris 🌍 Bithynia (Pontos) 🌍 River Indos (India) 👤 Aigyptos (s. of Hephaistos) 👤 Aganippe (Egyptian) 👤 Garmathone 👤 Chrysochoas 🌍 Babylon (Mesopotamia) 🌍 Armenia 👥 the Melampodai 👤 Horus 🌍 Troy (Egypt) 🏺 the Drug of Helen 🌍 Mount Bagistanos (Persia) 🌍 Persia 👤 the Aegis 🌍 the Ceraunian Mountains (Libya) 👤 Olympos (Egyptian) 🏛️ the Oracle of Zeus-Ammon (N. Africa) 🌍 the Land of the Eremboi 🌍 Nysa (Arabia Felix) 👤 Macedon (s. of Osiris) 👤 Neileus (Egyptian) 👥 the Daughters of Cinyras 🌍 Menelaon (Egypt) 🌍 the Propontis 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Egypt) 👤 Thyestes (Egyptian) 🌍 the Lookout of Perseus (Egypt) 👤 Ninos (Babylonian) 🌍 Carne (Phoinicia) 🌍 River Canopos (Egypt) 👤 Semiramis 👤 Ariaios 🌍 Babylonia 🌍 Coile Syria (Assyria) 🌍 the Caspian Gates 🌍 Bactra (Bactria) 👤 Theonoe (Egyptian) 🌍 Chauon (Media) 🌍 the Zagros Mountains (Media) 🌍 Ecbatana (Media) 👤 Theoclymenos (s. of Proteus) 👤 Dionysos (Libyan) 👤 Dionysos (Egyptian) 👤 Menon (Egyptian)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 3.5 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.30 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.1.3 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.1.4 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.5.11 📖 Apollodoros, Library 1.6.3 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.1.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.1 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.14.3 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 115-143 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 1283-1308 📖 Pausanias 4.35.2 📖 Pausanias 1.39.6 📖 Pausanias 1.42.3 📖 Pausanias 1.44.3 📖 Pausanias 2.30.5 📖 Pausanias 2.38.4 📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.276-3.303 📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.68-4.89 📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.219-4.234 📖 Homer, Odyssey 14.191-14.359 📖 Homer, Odyssey 17.360-17.480 📖 Pausanias 9.12.2-9.12.3 📖 Pausanias 2.16.1-2.16.2 📖 Pausanias 10.13.7-10.13.8 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.1-6.30 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.5.1-3.5.3 📖 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 782-815 📖 Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 823-875 📖 Nostoi Argumentum 1 West 📖 Nostoi Argumentum 5 West 📖 Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories 42 📖 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 19 📖 Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories 16 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods 7 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods 8.1-8.3 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods 11.1-11.2 MacLeod 📖 Lucian, On Sacrifices 14 📖 Lucian, A True Story 2.23 📖 Lucian, The Dance 19 📖 Lucian, The Dance 59 📖 Pindar, Pythian 4 1-63 📖 Pindar, Nemean 10 1-18 📖 Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers 16 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.10.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.12.1-1.12.10 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.13.1-1.14.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.15.6-1.15.9 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.17.1-1.17.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.18.1-1.18.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.19.1-1.19.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.20.1-1.20.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.18.1-1.20.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.21.1-1.21.11 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.23.1-1.23.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.24.1-1.24.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.25.6-1.25.7 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.28.1-1.28.3 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.28.4-1.28.7 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.29.1-1.29.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.45.1-1.45.7 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.61.1-1.61.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.62.1-1.62.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.96.1-1.96.9 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.97.1-1.97.9 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.51.3-1.51.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.55.4-3.55.11 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.70.1-3.70.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.73.1-3.73.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.74.1-3.74.6 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 2.103 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 4.171 📖 Strabo 7.7.1 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.42 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.722-1.764 📖 Strabo 1.2.24-1.2.29 📖 Strabo 1.2.30-1.2.35 📖 Strabo 17.1.16-17.1.19 📖 Servius, Scholia on Georgics 3.5 📖 Servius, Scholia on Georgics 4.390 📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.250-5.331 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 90-143 📖 Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses 28 📖 Callimachus fr. 655 Pfeiffer 📖 Conon, Narrations 8 📖 Diodoros, Library 2.1.1-2.3.4 📖 Euripides, Helen 1-30 📖 Euripides, Helen 31-67 📖 Diodoros, Library 3.3.1-3.3.7 📖 Euripides, Helen 362-436 📖 Euripides, Helen 530-615 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.67.1-1.67.11 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.69.1-1.69.7 📖 Euripides, Helen 1512-1620 📖 Euripides, Helen 765-841 📖 Diodoros, Library 2.13.1-2.19.10 📖 Euripides, Electra 1232-1291 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.192 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.193 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.195 📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.206 ⚒️ Decree on Stele at Xanthos by Magistrates of Xanthos (SEG 38.1476) ⚒️ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668)
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Epitome Apollodoros, Library Nostoi Lycophron, Alexandra Homer, Odyssey Pausanias Strabo Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound Palaiphatos, On Unbelievable Stories Anonymous, On Unbelievable Stories Lucian, Dialogues of the Gods Lucian, Dialogues of the Sea-Gods Lucian, On Sacrifices Lucian, A True Story Lucian, The Dance Pindar, Pythian 4 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs Ps-Plutarch, On Rivers Pindar, Nemean 10 Diodoros, Library Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses D-Scholia, Iliad Callimachus Ovid, Metamorphoses Servius, Scholia on Georgics Conon, Narrations Euripides, Helen Euripides, Electra Pliny, Natural History
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.1.3 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.1.4 📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.68-4.89 📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.219-4.234 📖 Homer, Odyssey 17.481-17.504 📖 Homeric Hymn 1 to Dionysos 1-9 📖 Herodotos, Histories 1.41 📖 Charax of Pergamon FGrHist 103 fr. 13 📖 Vergil, Georgics 3.1-3.39 📖 Vergil, Georgics 4.387-4.452 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 4 Rusten 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 9 Rusten 📖 Dionysios Scytobrachion fr. 12 Rusten 📖 Nicander, Metamorphoses fr. 59 Gow-Scholfield 📖 Ctesias of Cnidos, Persica fr. 1 📖 Anticleides of Athens FGrHist 140 fr. 11a 📖 Gellius fr. 12a Cornell
- Depictions
- 🎨 Wall Paintings from Casa Di Stallius Eros I 6, 13, Pompeii (PALP r1-i6-p13-space-13)
- Relevant to local traditions reported from
- 🌍 Egypt 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Megara (Argolid)
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 👤 Alceides (alt. Heracles) 👤 Amphion (Theban) 👤 Antaios 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Apollo 👤 Aigyptos (eponym) 👤 Artemis 👤 Athena 👤 Belos (Egyptian) 👤 Bousiris (Egyptian) 👤 Cadmos (Theban) 👤 Cecrops (Athenian I) 👤 Cerberos (dog) 👤 Cronos 👤 Daidalos 👤 Demeter 👤 Dionysos (Olympian) 👤 Eileithyia 👤 Erechtheus 👤 Hera 👤 Hestia 👤 Oceanos (Titan) 👤 Poseidon 👤 Rhea 👤 Zeus (Olympian) 👥 the Giants 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Hephaistos 👤 Heracles 👤 Hermes 👤 Isis 🌍 Eleusis (Attica) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 👤 Typhon 👤 Pelops (Pisan) 👤 Orpheus 👤 Pan (god) 👤 Helen 👤 Io 👥 the Muses 👤 Perseus (Argive) 👤 Peteos 👤 Prometheus (fire-stealer) 👤 Libya 👤 Lycourgos (Thracian I) 👤 Maron 👤 Melampous 👤 Memphis (Egyptian) 👤 Menestheus (Athenian) 👤 Nile (river god) 👤 Semele 👤 Proteus (Egyptian) 👤 Telemachos 👥 the Titans 👤 Triptolemos 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Knossos) 👥 the Athenian Contingent at Troy (attackers) 🏺 the Club of Heracles 🏺 the Lyre of Apollo 🌍 River Oceanos (unlocatable) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 Egypt 👤 Helios 🌍 Thrace (N. Greece) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians 👤 Canopos 🌍 River Nile (Egypt) 🌍 Memphis (Egypt) 🌍 Libya (North Africa) 🌍 Arabia 🌍 Thebes (Boiotia) 🌍 Attica 🌍 the Hellespont 👤 Danaos 🏺 the Lion Skin of Heracles 🏛️ the Pillars of Heracles 👤 the Caucasian Eagle 🌍 River Acheron (Underworld) 🌍 India 🌍 Canopos (Egypt) 🌍 Nysa (India) 🌍 Thebes (Egypt) 🏛️ the Tomb of Taraxippos (Olympia) 👥 the Olympian Gods 👥 the Horses of Oinomaos 👤 Heracles (Egyptian) 🌍 River Cocytos (Underworld) 🌍 River Lethe (Underworld) 👤 Maceris 👤 Ocnos 👤 Charon (boatman) 🏛️ the House of Menelaos (Sparta) 🌍 Macedonia (N. Greece) 🏺 the Object of Taraxippos 👤 Mousaios 👤 Polydamna 👤 Thon 🏛️ the Gates of Helios 🌍 the Hippodrome (Olympia) 👥 the Satyrs 🌍 Maroneia (Thrace) 👤 Anubis 👤 Osiris 🌍 River Aigyptos (alt. Nile) 🌍 Babylon (Mesopotamia) 🌍 Antaios (Egypt) 🌍 Philai (Egypt) 👤 Horus 🌍 Sais (Egypt) 🌍 Heliopolis (Egypt) 🌍 the Sanctuary of Ptah-Hephaistos at Memphis (Egypt) 🏺 the Drug of Helen 🌍 Momemphis (Egypt) 🌍 Mount Meros (India) 🌍 Palibothra (India) 👤 Tritogeneia (alt. Athena) 🌍 Nysa (Arabia Felix) 🏛️ the Temple of Amun-Re at Karnak (Egypt) 👤 Macedon (s. of Osiris) 🏛️ the Labyrinth (Egypt) 🌍 Hermopolis Magna (Egypt) 🌍 Edfu (Egypt) 🌍 Panopolis (Egypt) 🌍 Nekheb (Egypt) 🏛️ the Channel of the Nile (Ethiopia) 🏛️ the Tomb of Isis (Memphis) 🏛️ the Tomb of Osiris (Philai) 👤 Father of Memphis (name unknown) 👤 Thoth 🌍 Lake Acherousia (Egypt) 🏛️ the Gate of Cocytos (Memphis) 🏛️ the Gate of Lethe (Memphis) 🌍 Acanthi (Egypt) 🏛️ the Propylon in the Sanctuary of Ptah-Hephaistos at Memphis (Egypt) 🏺 the Statue of Daidalos 🏛️ the Temple of Daidalos (Egypt) 👤 Heracles (Indian) 🏛️ the Walls and Defensive Ditches of Palibothra (India) 🏛️ the Palace of Heracles (Palibothra)
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 2.1.3 📖 Pausanias 8.37.6 📖 Pausanias 6.20.15-6.20.19 📖 Pausanias 10.17.1-10.17.2 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.12.1-1.12.10 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.13.1-1.14.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.15.1-1.15.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.15.6-1.15.9 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.17.1-1.17.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.18.1-1.18.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.19.1-1.19.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.19.5-1.19.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.20.1-1.20.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.18.1-1.20.6 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.21.1-1.21.11 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.22.1-1.22.7 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.23.1-1.23.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.24.1-1.24.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.25.6-1.25.7 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.28.1-1.28.3 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.28.4-1.28.7 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.29.1-1.29.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.45.1-1.45.7 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.62.1-1.62.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.92.1-1.92.3 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.96.1-1.96.9 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.97.1-1.97.9 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.51.3-1.51.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 2.38.3-2.38.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 2.39.1-2.39.4 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.16.1-1.16.2 📖 Servius, Scholia on Georgics 1.19 📖 Ps-Scylax, Periplous 106.5 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.26.6-1.26.8 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.67.1-1.67.11 📖 Diodoros, Library 1.88.1-1.88.7