Son of Phoroneus who turned his father's kingship into a tyranny, named the Peloponnese Apia after himself, and died childless — after which the eponymous Argus son of Zeus and Niobe received the realm.1
Apollodorus sets Apis beside his sister Niobe in the first generation after Phoroneus: the nymph Teledice bore both to the gatherer of the Argolid. Apis converted his power into a tyranny and named the whole land afterwards called the Peloponnese after himself Apia; but being a stern tyrant he was conspired against and slain by Thelxion and Telchis. He left no child, and was afterwards deemed a god and called Sarapis.2
Hyginus' king-list genealogy likewise makes Apis a son of Phoroneus and Cinna, brother to Nioba — the first mortal embraced by Jove, whose son Argus would give Argos its name.3
Not the Arcadian Apis son of Jason whom Aetolus ran down at Azan's funeral games, nor the Egyptian bull with whom later mythographers identified the Argive king.4
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