Nileus
Role: son of Codrus and leader of a colony · First appears: Book 7 · Chapter 2
Nileus was a son of Codrus and the brother and rival of Medon: in Book 7, Chapter 2, they quarrelled over who should rule Athens. When the oracle at Delphi assigned the kingdom to Medon, Nileus and Codrus’s other sons were sent to found a colony.
At Miletus, Nileus and the Ionians conquered the city, killed its male inhabitants except those who escaped, and married the surviving women and daughters. Later, Æpytus, Nileus’s son, was named among those associated with the colonization of Priene.
Relationship record
Life events
- The oracle assigned Athens’ kingdom to Medon, sending Nileus and Codrus’s other sons to found a colony.(Book 7 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Delphi)
- With: Medon (son of Codrus) Codrus
- “But as they decided to submit the matter to the oracle at Delphi, the Pythian Priestess assigned the kingdom to Medon. So Nileus and the other sons of Codrus were sent on a colony”
- Nileus and the Ionians conquered Miletus, killing its males and marrying the surviving women.(Book 7 · Chapter 2 · 📍 Miletus)
- “But now when the Ionians conquered the old inhabitants of Miletus, they slew all the males except those that ran away from the captured city, and married their wives and daughters.”
Book 7 · Chapter 2
- siblings with Medon (son of Codrus) “And not many years afterwards Medon and Nileus, the eldest sons of Codrus, quarrelled as to who should be king over the Athenians”
- rivals with Medon (son of Codrus) “And not many years afterwards Medon and Nileus, the eldest sons of Codrus, quarrelled as to who should be king over the Athenians”
- parent: Codrus “And not many years afterwards Medon and Nileus, the eldest sons of Codrus, quarrelled as to who should be king over the Athenians”
- child: Æpytus (son of Nileus) “Priene was colonized by Thebans and Ionians mixed under Philotas, the descendant of Peneleus, and Æpytus the son of Nileus.”
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