Elatos was one of the Kentauroi who went into a frenzy at the mere smell of the wine fellow Kentauroi Pholos was serving to Herakles when Herakles was on his journey to find the Ermanthian Boar. Elatos and the other Peloponnesioi Kentauroi (with the exception of Pholos) attacked Herakles and in the insuing fight were all but wiped out by him. It is most likely that Elatos was among their number.
Parents[]
Either Seilenos & Melia or Ixion & Nephele
Ancient Text[]
"Wine is many a man's undoing, when he gulps his draught and will never drink discreetly. Wine it was that darkened the wits of Eurytion the Kentauros (Centaur) in the palace of bold Peirithoos. The kentauros had come to the Lapithai's country, and now with wine he clouded his understanding and in his frenzy did monstrous things in the very hall of Peirithoos. The heroes were seized with indignation; they leapt up, they dragged the kentauros across the courtyard and out of doors, they lopped off his ears and nose with the ruthless bronze, and the frenzied creature went his way, taking his retribution with him in his still darkened mind. From this beginning came the long feud between men and Kentauroi (Centaurs), but it was Eurytion first of all who brought chastisement on himself by his drunkenness."
- Homer, Odyssey 21. 293 ff (trans. Shewring) (Greek epic C8th B.C.)