ABSTRACT
Son of Zeus and Io, whom Zeus turned into a cow to avoid detection by his wife Hera. Io went from Argos to Egypt, where she recovered her natural shape and took the name Isis. In Egypt she bore Epaphus, equated by Herodotus with the Egyptian bull-god, Apis. He was stolen from her by Hera’s machinations but was subsequently restored to her and became king of Egypt. He founded a city on the spot where he had been born, naming it after his wife Memphis, a daughter of the Nile. Memphis bore him Libya and Lysianassa; Libya became the mother of Agenor and Belus.
