Androgeos
mythological figure · 3 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Aeneid
Greek captain who mistakes Aeneas's band for allies and is killed.
Androgeos, followed by a thronging band of Greeks, first met us on our desperate way;
so trembling did Androgeos backward fall.
Others bear off the captives and the spoil of burning Troy. Just from the galleys ye?”
Comparison of Theseus and Romulus
Figure whose tomb is associated with the Cretan tribute Theseus faced, possibly as the occasion for a sacrifice.
but as for the daring which he showed about the Cretan tribute, whether that was food for some monster, or a sacrifice on the tomb of Androgeos, or whether—and this is the mildest form of the story— he offered himself for inglorious and dishonourable servitude among insolent and cruel men when he volunteered to sail away with maidens and young boys, words cannot depict such courage, magnanimity, r …
Theseus
Son of Minos whose treacherous killing in Attica caused Minos to make war and exact tribute; funeral games instituted in his honor.
and that Minos instituted funeral games in honor of Androgeos, and as prizes for the victors, gave these Athenian youth, who were in the meantime imprisoned in the Labyrinth and that the victor in the first games was the man who had the greatest power at that time under Minos, and was his general, Taurus by name, who was not reasonable and gentle in his disposition, but treated the Athenian youth …
Now as to this tribute, most writers agree that because Androgeos was thought to have been treacherously killed within the confines of Attica, not only did Minos harass the inhabitants of that country greatly in war, but Heaven also laid it waste, for barrenness and pestilence smote it sorely, and its rivers dried up;