A son of Arcas and brother of Apheidas, Elatus received Mount Cyllene and later crossed into Phocis, where he aided the Phocians against the Phlegyans and founded the city of Elateia.1
Pausanias relates that the wife of Arcas was no mortal woman but a Dryad nymph named Erato, and that by her Arcas had three sons — Azan, Apheidas, and Elatus — to whom, together with an earlier illegitimate son Autolaus, the Arcadian land fell to be shared.2
In the division Elatus received Mount Cyllene, which until then had borne no name. Afterwards he migrated to the country now called Phocis, came to the help of the Phocians when they were hard pressed by the Phlegyans, and became the founder of the city Elateia. Pausanias gives him five sons — Aepytus, Pereus, Cyllen, Ischys, and Stymphalus.3
Elsewhere Pausanias names the same deed: when the Phlegyans marched against the sanctuary at Delphi, Elatus the son of Arcas came to the god's aid and stayed behind with his army in Phocis, there founding Elateia.4
Apollodorus tells the inheritance more sparely: Arcas had two sons, Elatus and Aphidas, who divided the land between them, but Elatus held all the power, and he begat Stymphalus and Pereus — naming neither the Dryad mother, nor Mount Cyllene, nor Elateia, and counting Elatus only these two sons.5
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