Son of Phocus the Aeacid and father of Epeius, who built the wooden horse; through him the slain Phocus' line took root in the land called Phocis.1
On the authority of the epic poet Asius, Pausanias gives the pedigree: to Phocus, the son Aeacus got of the Nereid Psamathe, were born Panopeus and Crisus, and to Panopeus was born Epeus, who made, according to Homer, the wooden horse. So the line of the brother slain on Aegina did not die with him, but made its home about Parnassus in the country thereafter named Phocis.2
His son inherits him in Homer as a patronymic worn in the games for Patroclus: when Achilles set out the prizes for boxing there rose a man valiant and tall, well skilled with his fists, even Epeius, son of Panopeus, who laid hold of the sturdy mule and dared any Achaean to win it from him.3
Apollodorus numbers him among Amphitryon's allies: Panopeus from Phocis came with Cephalus from Attica, Heleus from Argolis and Creon from Thebes, and with their help Amphitryon laid waste the islands of the Taphians.4
Ovid sets him in the great muster for the Calydonian boar, naming Panopeus in the same breath with Peleus, father of Achilles, and the swift Eurytion among the heroes who gathered to Meleager's hunt.5
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