Cyzicus

Also known as: Cyzicus son of Aeneus · Family: Doliones · Role: king of the Doliones · First appears: Book I 7

Life events

Jason kills Cyzicus during the mistaken night battle.(Book I 8 · 📍 Sacred Rock)
- With: Jason
- “But Aeson’s son leapt upon him as he turned to face him, and smote him in the middle of the breast, and the bone was shattered round the spear”

protégé: Jason “Now the Doliones and Cyzicus himself all came together to meet them with friendliness, and when they knew of the quest and their lineage welcomed them with hospitality, and persuaded them to row further and to fasten their ship’s hawsers at the city harbour.”
parent: Aeneus “bitter grief seized the Minyan heroes when they saw before them Cyzicus son of Aeneus fallen in the midst of dust and blood.”
married with Cleite “the daughter of Percosian Merops, fair-haired Cleite, whom lately by priceless gifts he had brought from her father’s home from the mainland opposite.”
enemies with Jason “But Aeson’s son leapt upon him as he turned to face him, and smote him in the middle of the breast, and the bone was shattered round the spear; he rolled forward in the sand and filled up the measure of his fate.”
elder kin: Merops (Merops is Cleite’s father and Cyzicus has taken Cleite as his bride.) “the daughter of Percosian Merops, fair-haired Cleite, whom lately by priceless gifts he had brought from her father’s home from the mainland opposite”

Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.