Aleus, king in Tegea and father of Auge, had been told by an oracle that he would be overthrown by his grandson. Attempting to outwit the prophecy, he forced Auge to become a virginal priestess of Athena Alea, in which condition she was violated by Heracles. Although the infant Telephus was hidden in the temple, his cries revealed his presence and Aleus ordered the child exposed on Mt. Parthenion, the "mountain of the Virgin [Athena]". The child was suckled by a deer through the agency of Heracles.
Another version tells that King Aleus put Auge and the baby in a crate that was set adrift on the sea and washed up on the coast of Mysia in Asia Minor.
A third version tells that King Aleus exposed Telephus and sold Auge into slavery; she was thereby given as a gift to King Teuthras.
In either case, Telephus was adopted, either by King Corycus or by King Creon.
Father
King Aleus of Tegea