Aeson
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Pythian
The rightful former king of Iolcus, father of Jason, dispossessed by Pelias.
For I am the son of Aeson, and a native;
But as for the royal scepter and the throne, in which Aeson son of Cretheus once sat, and dispensed straight justice for a nation of horsemen:
History of the Peloponnesian War
Argive envoy sent to Lacedaemon to negotiate a treaty, alongside Eustrophus.
they sent as envoys to Lacedaemon, as quickly as they could, Eustrophus and Aeson, who were considered to be the most acceptable persons to them;