Aegeidae
group · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
The Funeral Speech
One of the ten Athenian tribes, said to have been motivated by the example of Theseus, who first established equality in the state, this heritage cited as the specific incentive for its members' valor in the recent battle.
Neither were the Aegeidae ignorant that Theseus, the son of Aegeus, for the first time established equality in the State.
Pythian
The Spartan-born clan, ancestral to the poet himself, whose migration through Thera to Cyrene is recounted as part of the city's founding history.
But it is my part to sing of the lovely glory that comes from Sparta, where the Aegeidae were born, and from there they went to Thera, my ancestors, not without the gods;