Augeias
Family: Argonauts · Role: king of the Eleans · First appears: Book I 2
Life events
- Jason led a delegation toward Aeetes’ palace to negotiate for the golden fleece.(Book III 2 · 📍 Aeetes’ palace)
Book I 2
- parent: Helios “Augeias, whom fame declared to be the son of Helios”
- with Aeetes (Augeias desired to meet Aeetes.) “There came also Augeias, whom fame declared to be the son of Helios; he reigned over the Eleans, glorying in his wealth; and greatly he desired to behold the Colchian land and Aeetes himself the ruler of the Colchians.”
Book III 2
- friends with Jason “And then he summoned to go with him the sons of Phrixus, and Telamon and Augeias; and himself took Hermes’ wand; and at once they passed forth from the ship beyond the reeds and the water to dry land, towards the rising ground of the plain.”
- patron: Hera “And as they went Hera with friendly thought spread a thick mist through the city, that they might fare to the palace of Aeetes unseen by the countless hosts of the Colchians.”
- friends with Telamon (They went together on the Argonauts’ mission.) “And then he summoned to go with him the sons of Phrixus, and Telamon and Augeias;”
Book III 3
- parent: Helios “And here, if thou hast heard at all of the seed of Helios, thou dost behold Augeias;”
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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.