Themis and Aegeus Attic red-figure kylix, 440–430 BC
Other names
Aegeas
Predecessor
Pandion II
Successor
Theseus
Abode
Megara, then Athens
Personal information
Parents
(1) Pandion II and Pylia (2) Scyrius (3) Phemius
Siblings
(1) Pallas, Nisus, Lycus and wife of Sciron
Consort
(i) Meta (ii) Chalciope (iii) Aethra (iv) Medea (v) unknown
Children
(iii) Theseus (iv) Medus (v) Pallas
Theseus Recognized by his Father by Hippolyte Flandrin (1832)
Aegeus (/ˈiːdʒi.əs/,[1]/ˈiːdʒuːs/;[2] Greek: Αἰγεύς, translit. Aigeús) was one of the kings of Athens[3] in Greek mythology, who gave his name to the Aegean Sea, was the father of Theseus,[4] and founded Athenian institutions.
^Morford, Mark P. O.; Lenardon, Robert J.; Sham, Michael (2015). Classical Mythology (International 10th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. I-13. ISBN 978-0-19-999739-8.
^Smith, Benjamin E., ed. (1895). Century Cyclopedia of Names. Vol. i. New York: Century. p. 16.
said to be the son of Aegeus. Aegeides (Αἰγείδης), was a patronymic from Aegeus and especially used to designate Theseus. Aegeus was born in Megara where...
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his connection to Aegeus, travels overland to Athens, having many adventures on the way. When he reaches Athens, he finds that Aegeus is married to Medea...
the heir to the throne rather than Medus, and convinces Aegeus to poison Theseus's drink. Aegeus realizes Theseus is his son and throws the drink away....
Marathon by the Cretan Bull, his mother's former taurine lover, because Aegeus, king of Athens, had commanded Androgeus to slay it. The common tradition...
Menestheus, great-grandson of Erechtheus and second cousin of Theseus' father Aegeus. Menestheus is reportedly assisted by Castor and Polydeuces of Sparta, who...
a wise man, and well versed on understanding the oracle thus sought by Aegeus. Pittheus is said to have taught the art of speaking, and even to have written...
of Aegeus, king of Athens. Diodorus Siculus related that the Pallantides once became friends with Androgeos, a son of Minos, and that was why Aegeus had...
a king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. Every nine years, he made King Aegeus pick seven young boys and seven young girls to be sent to Daedalus's creation...
or Medeus (Μηδείας or Μήδειος) was an Athenian prince as the son of King Aegeus, thus a half-brother of the hero Theseus. Medus's mother was the Colchian...
His four sons lead a successful military campaign to regain the throne. Aegeus becomes King of Athens, Nisos reigns in Megara, Lykos in Euboea and Pallas...
information regions. The name Aegaeus, used by Late Latin authors, referred to Aegeus, who was said to have jumped into that sea to drown himself (rather than...
the SETI project META fuel, a solid fuel Meta (mythology), first wife of Aegeus, mythical king of Athens Meta' language, spoken in Cameroon Middle East...
back-formation from "Aegean", the sea that was named after an eponymous Aegeus in early levels of Greek mythology. The Encyclopædia Britannica (1911) mentioned...
BC Aegeus Son of Pandion II; construction of Trojan Walls by Poseidon, Apollo and the mortal Aeacus (c. 1282 BC) 1234–1205 BC Theseus Son of Aegeus 1205–1183...
married Aegeus and had by him several daughters, but no sons. Some traditions held that she was the only spouse of Aegeus, yet in other accounts, Aegeus was...
kin. One tale goes that after Perses seized power, Medea's son by either Aegeus or Jason, Medus, arrived in Colchis and was imprisoned immediately, though...
(Buru) Papilio gambrisius is a member of the aegeus species-group. The clade members are Papilio aegeus Donovan, 1805 Papilio bridgei Mathew, 1886 ? Papilio...
7., 9: and last segments; the spines as in P. aegeus; on Citrus, in the forest. Pupa as in P. aegeus, in proportion to its size somewhat more slender...
and his wife Metiadusa, daughter of Eupalamus. Pandion was the father of Aegeus, Pallas, Nisos, Lycus and the wife of Sciron by Pylia, daughter of King...
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