Azan (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Azan^{[pronunciation?]} (Ancient Greek: Ἀζᾶν) may refer to the following personages:

• Azan, king of Azania in Arcadia and the son of King Arcas and the Dryad Erato^[1] or Leanira,^[2][3] brother of Apheidas, Elatus and Hyperippe. Azan was the father of Cleitor and Coronis, mother of Asclepius by Apollo.^[4] When Azan and his brothers grew up, their father Arcas divided the land between them into three parts: Azan received the district which was named after him, to Apheidas fell Tegea and Elatus got Mount Cyllene, which down to that time had received no name.^[5] When Azan died, the first funeral games in history were held in his honor.^[6] It was at these games that Aetolus accidentally killed Apis.^[7] Azan's heir to the throne was his son Cleitor but he was childless, thus succeeded by Aepytus, son of Elatus.^[8]
• Azan, husband of Hippolyte, daughter of Dexamenus, who was threatened with violence by the Centaur Eurytion.^[9]

Notes

1. Pausanias, 8.4.2
2. Scholion on Euripides, Orestes 1646
3. Fowler, Robert L. (2013). Early Greek Mythography: Volume II Commentary. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 107. ISBN 978-0-19-814741-1.
4. Homeric Hymn to Apollo 3.209
5. Pausanias, 8.4.3–4
6. Pausanias, 8.4.5
7. Pausanias, 5.1.8
8. Pausanias, 8.4.7
9. Diodorus Siculus, 4.33.1

References

• Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888-1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Fowler, Robert L., Early Greek Mythography. Volume 2: Commentary. Oxford University Press. Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom. 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-814741-1
• The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. Homeric Hymns. Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. 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. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.