- Elatus
There were six figures named Elatus or Élatos in
Greek mythology .* Elatus, a Lapith chieftain, was the father, by
Hippeia , of:
**Ischys who was beloved byCoronis . He may have been the son of a different Elatus.
**Caeneus
**Polyphemus
**Ampycus . He may have had a different mother.
*31824 Elatus , an asteroid named after the centaur Elatus, killed during a battle withHercules by a poisoned arrow that passed through his arm and continued to woundChiron in the knee.
*Elatus was one of the suitors ofPenelope . He was killed byEumaeus , the swineherd.
*Elatus, the son ofArcas and either Erato or Chrysopeleia or Leanira, daughter ofAmyclas , or Meganira, daughter of Croco.
*Elatus, who lived in theTroad town ofPedasus , and was killed during theTrojan War byAgamemnon .
*Elatus the seer. He was the father ofAmpycus .*Elatos is also the
fir tree in Greek.
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