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.
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