The Argonautica

Cretheus

Family: Aeolian · Role: grandfather of Jason · First appears: Book II 9

Book II 9

  • siblings with Athamas “For Cretheus and Athamas were brothers.”
  • younger kin: Jason “I am the grandson of Cretheus”

Book III 3

  • child: Aeson “This man on whose account the rest were gathered from Hellas, they call Jason, son of Aeson, whom Cretheus begat.”
  • parent: Aeolus “For Cretheus and Athamas were both sons of Aeolus”
  • siblings with Athamas “For Cretheus and Athamas were both sons of Aeolus;”
  • younger kin: Jason “This man on whose account the rest were gathered from Hellas, they call Jason, son of Aeson, whom Cretheus begat.”

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