InGreek andRoman mythology,Iapyx (fromGreek Ἰάπυξ,gen.: Ἰάπυγος),Iapux orIapis was a favorite ofApollo. 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'sAeneid (XII: 391–402) relates that Iapyx wasAeneas's healer during theTrojan War and then escaped toItaly after the war, foundingApulia.

His descent is unclear. He was either:

• a son ofIasus,^[1] or
• the son ofLycaon, which would make him the brother of Daunius andPeucetius (who went as leaders of a colony to Italy),^[2] or
• a Cretan, from whom the Cretans who migrated to Italy derived the name ofIapyges, or
• a son ofDaedalus either:
  • by his wife, thus making him a full-brother ofIcarus;^[3]
  • by another Cretan woman.^[4]

Iapyx is also the name of a minor Greekwind god, the north-west or west-north-west wind. Virgil relates this Iapyx to the wind that carried the fleeingCleopatra home toEgypt after her loss at thebattle of Actium.^[5] Horace^[6] prays that Iapyx may safely carry his friend Virgil's ship to Greece.

• Antoninus Liberalis,The Metamorphoses of Antoninus Liberalis translated by Francis Celoria (Routledge 1992).Online version at the Topos Text Project.
• Herodotus,The Histories with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.ISBN 0-674-99133-8.Online version at the Topos Text Project.Greek text available at Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Publius Vergilius Maro,Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900.Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo,The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Strabo,Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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