Aethra
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
The Funeral Speech
Mother of Acamas, for whose sake he sailed to Troy according to Homer.
The Acamantidae did not fail to recall the epics in which Homer says that Acamas sailed for Troy for the sake of his mother Aethra.
Heracleidae
Daughter of Pittheus and mother of Theseus, named in Iolaus's genealogical argument to Demophon.
from him sprung Aethra, and from her Theseus thy sire was born.
Suppliants
Mother of Theseus, priestess-suppliant at the shrine of Demeter at Eleusis, who receives the Argive mothers and persuades her son to help them.
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.
and although I see the prosperity of Cadmus’ folk, still am I confident they will throw a different die;
Aethra: