Pittheus
mythological figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
aged Pittheus · holy Pittheus · old Pittheus
in the texts
Heracleidae
Son of Pelops and father of Aethra, named in the genealogy Iolaus recites to establish Demophon's kinship with Heracles' children.
Pittheus was the son of Pelops;
Hippolytus
Elder statesman of Troezen, grandfather-figure who raised Hippolytus.
Hath aught befallen old Pittheus?
Yon youth, in the keenness of his fury, will tell his father of my sin, and the aged Pittheus of my state, and fill the world with stories to my shame.
for that son of Theseus, born of the Amazon, Hippolytus, whom holy Pittheus taught, alone of all the dwellers in this land of Troezen, calls me vilest of the deities.
Medea
King of Troezen, son of Pelops, renowned for wisdom, whom Aegeus intends to consult about the oracle.
Aegeus:
O’er Troezen’s realm is Pittheus king.
Medea: Pelops’ son, a man devout they say.
Suppliants
Father of Aethra and king of Troezen, named in her opening prayer.
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.