Inachus
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Inachus the place
Inachus the Argive · the Argive Inachus
in the texts
Stromata
Mythological Argive king used as a chronological benchmark relative to Moses.
He comes eleven generations above, from Inachus and Moses, after Danaus, as we shall show a little further on.
16.80. Draco too, himself a lawgiver, is found to have lived about the thirty-ninth Olympiad. And Antilochus, who treated of the men of learning from the age of Pythagoras to the death of Epicurus . . . on the tenth of Gamelion at its beginning, brings the whole to three hundred and twelve years. Further, they say that Phanothea, the wife of Icarius, found the hexameter heroic verse, though some s …
from which it is seen that Moses flourished in the time of Inachus.
The Histories
Mythological king of Argos and father of Io
On the fifth or sixth day after their arrival, when their wares were almost all sold, many women came to the shore and among them especially the daughter of the king, whose name was Io (according to Persians and Greeks alike), the daughter of Inachus.
Apologeticum
Legendary founder of Argos used as a chronological benchmark.
If you have heard meanwhile of one Moses, he is of equal age with the Argive Inachus.