(ἀπόμυος), in the Heathen Mythology, a name under which Zeus was worshipped at Elis, and Hercules as well as Zeus at the Olympic games. These deities were supplicated under this name to destroy or drive away the vast number of flies which always attended at the great sacrifices; and in those which accompanied the Olympic games, the first was always to the Apomynos, or Myia-grus Theos, that he might drive away the flies from the rest. The usual sacrifice was a bull.