Aeson
Family: Iolcus · Role: father of Jason · First appears: Book I 1
In Book I, Aeson married Alcimede, “daughter of Phylacus,” and was the parent of Jason, called “Aeson’s son.” In Book III, Jason is again identified as the son of Aeson, with the account saying that Cretheus begat him.
Relationship record
Book I 1
- married with Alcimede “for Aeson had wedded his sister Alcimede, daughter of Phylacus”
- child: Jason “Aeson’s son”
Book I 2
- child: Jason “the son of Aeson”
Book I 3
- child: Jason “And among them with goodwill spake Aeson’s son:”
Book I 4
- child: Jason “But here the son of Aeson, all helpless, was brooding over each event in his mind, like one oppressed with thought.”
Book I 7
- child: Jason “Aeson’s son”
Book I 8
- child: Jason “But there Heracles had been left behind with the younger heroes and he quickly bent his back-springing bow against the monsters”
Book I 9
- child: Jason “And with many prayers did Aeson’s son beseech the goddess to turn aside the stormy blasts”
Book I 10
- child: Jason (Aeson is identified as Jason’s father.) “And Aeson’s son, bewildered by their hapless plight, said never a word, good or bad”
Book II 4
- child: Jason “the hero, son of Aeson, spake, sore dismayed at their evil plight”
Book II 5
- child: Jason “Son of Aeson, no longer fear thou so much the hest of thy king”
Book II 6
- child: Jason (Jason is identified by the patronymic “Aeson’s son”.) “Aeson’s son told him the lineage and name of each of his comrades and the behests of Pelias”
Book II 7
- child: Jason (Jason is identified by the patronymic “Aeson’s son.”) “And him in reply Aeson’s son addressed with helpless words:”
Book II 9
- child: Jason “And in reply the son of Aeson prudently questioned him”
Book II 10
- child: Jason “And Aeson’s son himself from a golden goblet poured into the river libations of honey and pure wine to Earth and to the gods of the country,”
Book III 1
- child: Jason “For already on the river Phasis the son of Aeson moors his ship, he and his comrades in quest of the fleece.”
Book III 2
- child: Jason “And Aeson’s son himself was speaking among them;”
Book III 3
- parent: Cretheus “This man on whose account the rest were gathered from Hellas, they call Jason, son of Aeson, whom Cretheus begat.”
- child: Jason “they call Jason, son of Aeson”
Book III 4
- child: Jason “And wonderfully among them all shone the son of Aeson for beauty and grace;”
Book III 5
- child: Jason “A trembling dove in her flight from a mighty hawk fell from on high, terrified, into the lap of Aeson’s son”
Book III 6
- child: Jason “For in her love for Aeson’s son many cares kept her wakeful, and she dreaded the mighty strength of the bulls, beneath whose fury he was like to perish by an unseemly fate in the field of Ares.”
Book III 7
- child: Jason “Do thou, son of Aeson, pass on to the temple, where thou wilt find the maiden;”
Book III 8
- child: Jason “so wonderfully did love flash forth a sweet flame from the golden head of Aeson’s son;”
Book III 9
- child: Jason “but Aeson’s son took heed, and spake at last, though late:”
Book III 10
- child: Jason “in such wise did Aeson’s son rejoice in the strength of his limbs.”
Book III 11
- child: Jason (Aeson is identified as Jason’s father through the phrase “Aeson’s son”.) “in such wise did Aeson’s son rush upon the earthborn men”
Book IV 2
- child: Jason “Aeson’s son followed in fear”
Book IV 3
- child: Jason “What is this purpose that ye are now devising about me, O son of Aeson?”
Book IV 4
- child: Jason (Aeson is identified as Jason’s father through the patronymic.) “Aeson’s son leapt forth from the thick ambush, lifting his bare sword in his hand”
Book IV 5
- child: Jason “Aeson’s son”
Book IV 6
- child: Jason “the host remained stedfast at the bidding of Aeson’s son”
Book IV 9
- child: Jason “But Jason, as I hear, is bound to her by mighty oaths that he will make her his wedded wife within his halls.”
Book IV 11
- child: Jason “they stood near Aeson’s son”
Book IV 13
- child: Jason “Aeson’s son”
Book IV 14
- child: Jason “Of this he stored in his heart the memory, and declared it to Aeson’s son; and Jason pondered a prophecy of the Far-Darter and lifted up his voice and said:”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.