Elatus
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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 by Coronis. 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 with Hercules by a poisoned arrow that passed through his arm and continued to wound Chiron in the knee.
- Elatus was one of the suitors of Penelope. He was killed by Eumaeus, the swineherd.
- Elatus, the son of Arcas and either Erato or Chrysopeleia or Leanira, daughter of Amyclas, or Meganira, daughter of Croco.
- Elatus, who lived in the Troad town of Pedasus, and was killed during the Trojan War by Agamemnon.
- Elatus the seer. He was the father of Ampycus.