Elasippus (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Elasippus (Ancient Greek: Ἐλάσιππον means 'horse-riding, knightly') may refer to two personages:

• Elasippus, one of the ten sons of Poseidon and Cleito in Plato's myth of Atlantis.^[1] He was the elder brother of Mestor and his other siblings were Atlas and Eumelus, Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, and lastly, Azaes and Diaprepes.^[2] Elasippus, along with his nine siblings, became the heads of ten royal houses, each ruling a tenth portion of the island, according to a partition made by Poseidon himself, but all subject to the supreme dynasty of Atlas who was the eldest of the ten.^[3]
• Elasippus, son of Haemon and an Achaean soldier who participated in the Trojan War. He was slain by the Amazon queen, Penthesilia.^[4]

Notes

1. Plato, Critias 113d
2. Plato, Critias 114a–c.
3. Plato, Critias 114d.
4. Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 1.229.

References

• Plato, Critias in Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available at the same website.
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy translated by Way. A. S. Loeb Classical Library Volume 19. London: William Heinemann, 1913. Online version at theio.com
• Quintus Smyrnaeus, The Fall of Troy. Arthur S. Way. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1913. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.