# Aepytus

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{{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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Aepytus_I_of_Arcadia), king of [Arcadia](/source/Arcadia_(ancient_region)) and son of [Elatus](/source/Elatus).<ref>[Pindar](/source/Pindar), ''Olympian Odes'' 6.54</ref>
* [Aepytus](/source/Aepytus_II_of_Arcadia), also a king of Arcadia and son of [Hippothous](/source/Hippothous).<ref>[Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), 8.5.3</ref>
* [Aepytus](/source/Aepytus_of_Messenia), son of the [Heraclid](/source/Heracleidae) [Cresphontes](/source/Cresphontes).<ref>[Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-Apollodorus)), 2.8.5</ref>

The name is not to be confused with [Iapetus](/source/Iapetus) ({{langx|grc|Ἰαπετός|Iapetós}}).

== Notes ==
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== References ==
*[Apollodorus](/source/Bibliotheca_(Pseudo-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](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), ''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](/source/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].
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