Cepheus (son of Aleus)

For other uses, see Cepheus (mythology).

In Greek mythology, Cepheus (/ˈsiːfiəs, -fjuːs/; Ancient Greek: Κηφεύς Kephéus) was a king of Tegea in Arcadia. He was an Argonaut, and was, along with most of his twenty sons, killed in Heracles' war against Hippocoon, king of Sparta.[1] He was perhaps the same Cepheus who, according to the mythographer Apollodorus, participated in the Calydonian boar hunt.[2]

  1. ^ Grimal, s.v. Cepheus 1; Tripp, s.v. Cepheus 2; Smith, s.v. Cepheus 2; s.vv. Cepheus 2, Aleus.
  2. ^ Hard, pp. 416, 729; Grimal, s.v. Cepheus 1, Tripp, s.v. Cepheus 2, and Parada, s.v. Cepheus 2, all treat these two as the same, while Smith, s.vv. Cepheus 2, Cepheus 3, treats them as distinct.