[5] The patronymic Apharetidae, derived from the name of Aphareus, is sometimes used to refer to Idas and Lynceus collectively.
It is said that Aphareus together with his brother Leucippus inherited their father's kingdom upon his death, but the former kept the greater authority than the latter.
[6] When Hippocoon usurped the throne of Sparta, Tyndareus fled to his step-brother Aphareus in Messenia where he settled in Thalamae and while living there, children were born to him.
[7] Aphareus received into his house his cousin Neleus, who had been driven out of Iolcus by Pelias, and assigned to him a tract of land in the maritime part of Messenia, where the main city was Pylos.
In the same fashion, Aphareus also welcomed in Arene the exiled Lycus, son of Pandion who fled from his brother Aegeus in Athens.