Augeas
mythological figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
King Augeas
in the texts
Iliad
King of the Epeans who wrongfully seizes horses owed to Neleus, precipitating the conflict recounted by Nestor.
They and their chariots with them had gone to the games and were to run for a tripod, but King Augeas took them, and sent back their driver grieving for the loss of his horses.
He was son-in-law to Augeas, having married his eldest daughter, golden-haired Agamede, who knew the virtues of every herb which grows upon the face of the earth.
Orations
Mythical king whose stables Heracles was made to clean as a menial task.
but that whenever he came to Argos, he was bidden to carry off the dung of Augeas, or to hunt the serpents, or to drive away the birds, that they might not trouble the farmers in Stymphalus, or to do other such mean and lowly tasks at command;