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Ischys had an affair with the Thessalian princess Coronis, one of Apollo's lovers, who was at that time pregnant with the god's child. When a (then white) raven told Apollo of the affair between Ischys and Coronis, he became so angry that his intense glare scorched the raven black.
According to Ovid, when Coronis was pregnant, Apollo had appointed a white raven to guard her before leaving. The raven, after learning the affair of Coronis with Ischys, reported it to Apollo. Apollo sent Artemis to kill the couple and in anger, turned the raven black by scorching it as a punishment for being a tattletale and failing its duty.
Amphissa is likely the same as "Isse Macareïs" (i. e. Isse the daughter of Macareus) mentioned by Ovid as a lover of Apollo who initially seduced her in the disguise of a shepherd. Their story was one of the images Arachne wove into her weaving, along with other disguises that Apollo, Zeus , Poseidon and Dionysus used when seducing mortal ...
Apollo named the child after Coronis' nickname, Aegle. [9] Phoenician tradition maintains that Asclepius was born of Apollo without any woman involved. [10] According to the Roman version, Apollo, having learned about Coronis' betrayal with the mortal Ischys through his raven Lycius, killed her with his arrows. Before breathing her last, she ...
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Alcyoneus, an alternate name for Ischys, the son of Elatus and Hippea, and also the lover of Coronis. [3] Alcyoneus, a member of the Ethiopian army who followed their leader, King Memnon, to fight on the side of the Trojans during the Trojan War. [4]
Phlegyas was the son of Ares and Chryse, daughter of Halmus, [1] or of Dotis. [2] In one account, he was mentioned as an autochthon. [3] Phlegyas was the brother of Ixion, another king of the Lapiths, [4] and Gyrton, eponym of a Thessalian town. [5] Phlegyas was the father of Ixion, in some accounts, as well as Coronis, one of Apollo's lovers.
Laodice, daughter of King Priam and a princess of Troy [3] Laodice, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, sometimes conflated with Electra. [4] Laodice, daughter of King Cinyras of Cyprus and Metharme. She was the wife of Elatus and by him mother of Stymphalus and Pereus, and possibly of Ischys, Cyllen and Aepytus too. [5]