{{Short description|Ancient Greek mythological figures}} {{For|the genus of moths|Aepytus (moth)}}
'''Aepytus''' ({{langx|grc|Αἴπυτος|Aípytos}}) can refer to several people in Greek mythology:<ref>{{Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | contribution = Aepytus (1), (2) and (3) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 35–36 | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0044.html | access-date = 2007-10-25 | archive-date = 2013-10-09 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131009062306/http://ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0044.html | url-status = dead }}</ref>
* Aepytus, king of Arcadia and son of Elatus.<ref>Pindar, ''Olympian Odes'' 6.54</ref> * Aepytus, also a king of Arcadia and son of Hippothous.<ref>Pausanias, 8.5.3</ref> * Aepytus, son of the Heraclid Cresphontes.<ref>Apollodorus, 2.8.5</ref>
The name is not to be confused with Iapetus ({{langx|grc|Ἰαπετός|Iapetós}}).
== Notes == {{reflist}}
== References == *Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website]. *Pausanias, ''Description of Greece'' with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. {{ISBN|0-674-99328-4}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0160 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library] *Pausanias, ''Graeciae Descriptio.'' ''3 vols''. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0159 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. * Pindar, ''Odes'' translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0162 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] * Pindar, ''The Odes of Pindar'' including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0161 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library]. {{SmithDGRBM|title= Aepytus (1), (2) and (3)}}{{Subject bar |portal=Ancient Greece|portal2=Myths}}
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Category:Characters in Greek mythology