Aeson

Family: Iolcus · Role: father of Jason · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Aeson) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Æson)

Apollodorus, Library 1.8

• child: Jason “Jason, son of Aeson”

Apollodorus, Library 1.9

• parent: Cretheus “by whom he had sons, Aeson, Amythaon, and Pheres.”

Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021

• child: Jason “And the son of Aeson by the will of the gods led away from Aeetes the daughter of Aeetes the heaven-nurtured king, when he had finished the many grievous labours which the great king, over bearing Pelias, that outrageous and presumptuous doer of violence, put upon him. But when the son of Aeson had finished them, he came to Iolcus after long toil bringing the coy-eyed girl with him on his swift ship, and made her his buxom wife. And she was subject to Iason, shepherd of the people, and bare a son Medeus whom Cheiron the son of Philyra brought up in the mountains.”

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