Aegyptus
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
Aegyptus' race · Aegyptus' sons
in the texts
Supplices
Brother of Danaus and father of the fifty sons who pursue the Danaids in marriage; his lineage is traced back through Belus, Agenor, Libya, and Epaphus to Zeus and Io.
For we have fled Zeus’ land whose pastures border Syria, and are fugitives, not because of some public decree pronounced against blood crime, but because of our own act to escape the suit of man, since we abhor as impious all marriage with the sons of Aegyptus.
So as not to be made slave to Aegyptus’ race.
Aegyptus;
Menexenus
Mythical figure cited as an example of barbarian stock among nominal Greeks.
For there cohabit with us none of the type of Pelops, or Cadmus, or Aegyptus or Danaus, and numerous others of the kind, who are naturally barbarians though nominally Greeks;