BATON

the charioteer of Amphiaratis. Both belonged to the house of Melampus, and both were swallowed up by the earth after the battle of Thebes.

Baton was afterwards worshipped as a hero, and had a sanctuary at Argos. He was represented on the chest of Cypselus, and at Delphi his statue stood by the side of that of Amphiaraus, both having been dedicated there by the Argives. (Apollodorus iii) Stephanus of Byzantium states that, after the disappearance of Amphiaraus, Baton emigrated to the town of Harpyia in Illyria.