Aidoneus
deity figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Aidoneus the Molossian · Aïdoneus
in the texts
Protrepticus
God (Hades) who rapes Kore/Pherephatta according to the myth.
Do you wish me to recount to you also the flower-gatherings of Pherephatta, and the basket, and the rape by Aïdoneus, and the cleft of the earth, and the swine of Eubuleus that were swallowed up along with the goddesses — the reason why, at the Thesmophoria, they cast pigs into the chasms?
Theseus
King of the Molossians who calls his wife Phersephone and daughter Cora, and who imprisons Theseus and Peirithous when they attempt to steal his daughter; later releases Theseus at Heracles's request.
Then he himself, to return the service of Peirithous,journeyed with him to Epirus, in quest of the daughter of Aidoneus the king of the Molossians.
Now while Heracles was the guest of Aidoneus the Molossian, the king incidentally spoke of the adventure of Theseus and Peirithous, telling what they had come there to do, and what they had suffered when they were found out.
Aidoneus yielded to his prayers, Theseus was set free, and returned to Athens, where his friends were not yet altogether overwhelmed.