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{{Short description|Favorite of Apollo in Greek mythology}}
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In [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Roman mythology]], '''Iapyx''' (from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] Ἰάπυξ, ''gen''.: Ἰάπυγος), ''Iapux'' or ''Iapis'' was a favorite of [[Apollo]]. The god wanted to confer upon him the gift of prophecy, the lyre, etc.; but Iapyx, wishing to prolong the life of his father, preferred the more tranquil art of healing to all the others.

[[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'' (XII: 391–402) relates that Iapyx was [[Aeneas]]'s healer during the [[Trojan War]] and then escaped to [[Italy]] after the war, founding [[Apulia]].

== Family ==
His descent is unclear. He was either:
*a son of [[Iasus]],<ref name=Smith>{{SmithDGRBM|author=LS|article=Iapis|volume=2|page=550}}</ref> or
*the son of [[Lycaon (king of Arcadia)|Lycaon]], which would make him the brother of Daunius and [[Peucetii|Peucetius]] (who went as leaders of a colony to Italy),<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], [https://topostext.org/work/216#31 31]</ref> or
*a Cretan, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name of [[Iapyges]], or
* a son of [[Daedalus]] either:
** by his wife, thus making him a full-brother of [[Icarus]];<ref>[[Harry Thurston Peck]], ''Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities'' (1898), [[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]] ''ad Aeneidos'' iii. 332).</ref>
** by another Cretan woman.<ref>[[Strabo]], 6.; [[Athenaeus]], 12.; [[Herodotus]], 7.170; Heyne, ad [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' 11.247</ref>

== Other use ==
Iapyx is also the name of a minor Greek [[Anemoi#Minor winds|wind god]], the north-west or west-north-west wind. Virgil relates this Iapyx to the wind that carried the fleeing [[Cleopatra]] home to [[Egypt]] after her loss at the [[battle of Actium]].<ref>Virgil, ''Aeneid'' 8.710</ref> Horace<ref>''Odes'' 1.3.4</ref> prays that Iapyx may safely carry his friend Virgil's ship to Greece.

==Notes==
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== References ==

* [[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis'' translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992). [https://topostext.org/work/216 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Herodotus]], ''[[Histories (Herodotus)|The Histories]]'' with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920. {{ISBN|0-674-99133-8}}. [https://topostext.org/work/22 Online version at the Topos Text Project.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0125 Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Virgil|Publius Vergilius Maro]], ''[[Aeneid]].'' Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Publius Vergilius Maro, ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica|The Geography of Strabo]].'' Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0198%3Abook%3D6%3Achapter%3D1%3Asection%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Strabo, ''Geographica'' edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]

[[Category:Mythological Greek physicians]]
[[Category:People of the Trojan War]]
[[Category:Mythological Cretans]]
[[Category:Male lovers of Apollo]]


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