Nisus
Family: Megara · Role: king · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 19
In Book 1, Chapter 19, Nisus, king of Megara, was slain by Minos, and the Athenians brought his corpse to be buried. In Chapter 39, he ceded Attica to Ægeus and was selected as king of Megara and the surrounding district. He disputed sovereignty with Sciron; later, Æacus awarded the kingdom to Nisus and his descendants, while giving Sciron command of the army. Megareus came to aid Nisus in his war against Minos and died in battle; Nisus’s daughter Iphinoe married Megareus, who succeeded him as king.
In Book 1, Chapter 41, Megara was captured during Nisus’s reign, followed by a revolution and Megareus’s succession. Book 2, Chapter 34 recounts that Minos conquered Nisæa and Megara through the treason of Scylla, Nisus’s daughter.
Relationship record
Life events
- Nisus was slain by Minos, and his corpse was brought here and buried.(Book 1 · Chapter 19 · 📍 Megara)
- With: Minos
- “the tomb of Nisus who was king of Megara and slain by Minos, and the Athenians brought his corpse here and buried it.”
- Nisus ceded Attica to Ægeus and became king of Megara.(Book 1 · Chapter 39 · 📍 Megara)
- With: Ægeus
- “Nisus, though he conceded the kingdom of Attica to Ægeus the head of the family, yet himself was selected to be king of Megara and the whole district up to Corinth:”
- Megareus died fighting for Nisus, and Nisa was renamed Megara after him.(Book 1 · Chapter 39)
- Æacus awarded sovereignty to Nisus and military command to Sciron.(Book 1 · Chapter 39)
- Megareus married Iphinoe and succeeded Nisus as king.(Book 1 · Chapter 39)
- Megara was captured during Nisus’s reign, followed by a revolution and Megareus’s succession.(Book 1 · Chapter 41 · 📍 Megara)
- With: Megareus
- “their city was captured when Nisus was king, and that Megareus who succeeded to the kingdom”
- Minos conquered Nisæa and Megara through Scylla’s treason.(Book 2 · Chapter 34)
Book 1 · Chapter 19
- with Minos (Minos slew Nisus.) “And behind the Lyceum is the tomb of Nisus who was king of Megara and slain by Minos, and the Athenians brought his corpse here and buried it.”
Book 1 · Chapter 39
- parent: Pandion “Nisus, though he conceded the kingdom of Attica to Ægeus the head of the family”
- with Ægeus (Nisus ceded the kingdom of Attica to Ægeus.) “Nisus, though he conceded the kingdom of Attica to Ægeus the head of the family”
- with Megareus (Megareus succeeded Nisus as king.) “succeeded Nisus they say in the kingdom”
- rivals with Sciron “Sciron having a controversy with Nisus the son of Pandion about the sovereignty”
- child: Iphinoe “Iphinoe the daughter of Nisus”
- enemies with Minos “But the Bœotians say that Megareus the son of Poseidon lived at Onchestus, and went with an army of Bœotians to aid Nisus in his war against Minos,”
- with Æacus (Æacus awarded the kingdom to Nisus and his descendants.) “Æacus was arbitrator, and gave his decision that the kingdom was to belong to Nisus and his descendants, but the command of the army was to devolve upon Sciron.”
Book 1 · Chapter 41
- with Megareus (Megareus was Nisus's son-in-law.) “Megareus who succeeded to the kingdom was the son in law of Nisus”
- married with Megareus “Megareus who succeeded to the kingdom was the son in law of Nisus”
Book 2 · Chapter 34
- child: Scylla “the promontory called Scyllæum from Scylla, the daughter of Nisus”
- with Scylla (Scylla's treason enabled Minos to take Nisæa and Megara.) “For after Minos took Nisæa and Megara through her treason, he refused to marry her though he had promised”
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