Ægeus

Family: Athens · Role: king of Athens · First appears: Fable 61

Fable 61

with Pandion II. (Pandion II. preceded Ægeus in the succession.) “the order of succession being Actæus, Cecrops, Cranaüs, Amphictyon, Erecthonius, Pandion, Erectheus, Cecrops II., Pandion II., Ægeus, Theseus.”
with Theseus (Ægeus preceded Theseus in the succession.) “the order of succession being Actæus, Cecrops, Cranaüs, Amphictyon, Erecthonius, Pandion, Erectheus, Cecrops II., Pandion II., Ægeus, Theseus.”

married with Medea “Ægeus, to be blamed for this deed alone, shelters her; and hospitality is not enough, he also joins her {to himself} by the ties of marriage.”
child: Theseus “And now was Theseus, his son, arrived, unknown to his father, who, by his valor, had established peace in the Isthmus between the two seas.”
enemies with Minos “And yet (so surely is the pleasure of no one unalloyed, and some anxiety is {ever} interposing amid joyous circumstances), Ægeus does not have his joy undisturbed, on receiving back his son. Minos prepares for war;”

child: Theseus (Theseus is identified as the son of Ægeus.) “immediately, the son of Ægeus, carrying away the daughter of Minos, sets sail for Dia,[13]”

Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.