Aegeus
Family: Athens · Role: father of Theseus · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8
🌐 Also appears in: The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Ægeus) · Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans (as Aegeus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Aegeus)
Aegeus of Athens was a son of Pandion and brother to Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus. He married Meta, daughter of Hoples, and Chalciope, daughter of Rhexenor; he was also married to Medea, who bore him Medus. With Aethra, he fathered Theseus.
At Marathon, Aegeus sent Androgeus against the bull, “by which he was destroyed.” Aethra then bore Aegeus a son, Theseus.
Relationship record
Life events
- Aegeus sent Androgeus against the bull of Marathon, and the bull killed him.(Apollodorus, Library 3.15 · 📍 Marathon)
- With: Androgeus
- “Him Aegeus sent against the bull of Marathon, by which he was destroyed.”
- Aethra gave birth to Theseus, son of Aegeus.(Apollodorus, Library 3.16)
- Aegeus cast himself down and died after seeing Theseus’s ship under a black sail.(Apollodorus, Epitome 1 · 📍 acropolis)
- “Aegeus, seeing from the acropolis the ship with a black sail, supposed that Theseus had perished; so he cast himself down and died.”
Apollodorus, Library 1.8
- child: Theseus “Theseus, son of Aegeus”
Apollodorus, Library 1.9
- child: Medus “Medea came to Athens, and being there married to Aegeus bore him a son Medus.”
- married with Medea “being there married to Aegeus”
Apollodorus, Library 3.15
- parent: pandionsonofmetiadusa “he had sons born to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus”
- siblings with Pallas (son of Pandion) “he had sons born to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus”
- siblings with Nisus “he had sons born to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus”
- siblings with Lycus “he had sons born to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus”
- married with Meta “The first wife whom he married was Meta, daughter of Hoples”
- married with Chalciope “and the second was Chalciope, daughter of Rhexenor”
- with Aethra (interaction) “made him drunk and caused him to lie with his daughter Aethra”
- with Androgeus (interaction) “Him Aegeus sent against the bull of Marathon, by which he was destroyed.”
- parent: Pandion “he had sons born to him, to wit, Aegeus, Pallas, Nisus, and Lycus”
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