Aegeus
mythological figure · 7 works · 8 mentions · 11 anchored passages
son of Aegeus · Pandion's son · old Aegeus · son of wise Pandion
in the texts
Medea
King of Athens, son of Pandion, who arrives from Delphi seeking a cure for childlessness and pledges Medea future asylum.
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Constitution of the Athenians
Figure to whom Theseus's kinship motivated his reconnaissance journey to Scyros.
Aristotle records that Theseus, having gone to Scyros on a reconnaissance—reasonably, because of his kinship with Aegeus—died, thrust down from the rocks, Lycomedes who was reigning there having taken fright .
The Funeral Speech
Father of Theseus, named only genealogically in identifying Theseus as founder of Athenian equality.
Neither were the Aegeidae ignorant that Theseus, the son of Aegeus, for the first time established equality in the State.
Hippolytus
Theseus's mortal father, named only through the patronymic used by Artemis to address Theseus.
Hearken, I bid thee, noble son of Aegeus:
But thou, O son of old Aegeus, take thy son in thine arms, draw him close to thee, for unwittingly thou slewest him, and men may well commit an error when gods put it in their way.
Suppliants
Former king of Athens, husband of Aethra and father of Theseus.
But do ye, aged ladies, remove from my mother your holy wreaths, that I may take her by the hand and conduct her to the house of Aegeus;
O Demeter, guardian of this Eleusinian land, and ye servants of the goddess who attend her fane, grant happiness to me and my son Theseus, to the city of Athens and the country of Pittheus, wherein my father reared me, Aethra, in a happy home, and gave me in marriage to Aegeus, Pandion’s son, according to the oracle of Loxias.
Helen
King of Athens, Theseus's reputed (but not biological) father.
In the first place Theseus, reputedly the son of Aegeus, but in reality the progeny of Poseidon, seeing Helen not as yet in the full bloom of her beauty, but already surpassing other maidens, was so captivated by her loveliness that he, accustomed as he was to subdue others, and although the possessor of a fatherland most great and a kingdom most secure, thought life was not worth living amid the …
Oedipus at Colonus
The father of Theseus, used to identify the Athenian ruler's lineage.
Theseus he is called, son of Aegeus who was before him.
Look, there comes our lord, Theseus son of Aegeus, at the sound of your voice, to do that for which he was summoned.
Dearest son of Aegeus, to the gods alone old age and death never come, but everything else sinks into chaos from time which overpowers all.