Aegina
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Aegina the place
the daughter of Asopus
in the texts
Iphigenia in Aulis
Daughter of the river-god Asopus, beloved of Zeus and mother of Aeacus, the first ancestor named in Achilles' genealogy.
There was one Aegina, the daughter of Asopus.
Who wedded her?
Gorgias
Mythical nymph, mother of Aeacus, invoked through the epithet 'son of Aegina.'
but when you go before your judge, the son of Aegina, and he grips you and drags you up, you will gape and feel dizzy there no less than I do here, and some one perhaps will give you, yes, a degrading box on the ear, and will treat you with every kind of contumely.