[4] Elephenor received the sons of Theseus of Athens, Acamas and Demophon, when they fled from the usurper Menestheus.
[5] One source states that he unwittingly killed his grandfather Abas and was expelled from Euboea; because of that, he had to assemble his troops before the Trojan expedition on a rock of the Euripus Strait opposite Euboea.
[6] Elephenor was a suitor of Helen[7] and the leader of the Euboean force of thirty or forty ships which joined the Greek expedition to Troy.
[8] On the day the truce was broken by Pandarus, he was killed by Agenor whilst trying to drag off the body of Echepolus.
[9] On their way home, Elephonor's men were driven off course and shipwrecked off the coast of Epirus, where they founded the city of Apollonia.