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  Aegialeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Greek mythology, Aegialeus (also Aegealeus) was the son of Adrastus.
Aegialeus joined the orphans of the Seven Against Thebes.
They succeeded, but Aegialeus was killed by Laodamas.
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 EPIGONI, Greek Mythology Link.
Also Aegialeus 1, son of King Adrastus 1 of Argos, was killed in the battle at Glisas.
Aegialeus 1, son of Adrastus 1, married Comaetho 4, daughter of Tydeus 2 and sister of Diomedes 2.
Aegialeus 1, Alcmaeon 1, Amphilocus 1, Diomedes 2, Euryalus 1, Promachus 1, Sthenelus 2, Thersander 1.
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 Epigoni - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to Apollodorus, the Delphic oracle had promised victory if Alcmaeon was chosen their leader, and so he was.
Aegialeus was killed by Laodamas, son of Eteocles, but Acmaeon killed Laodamas.
The Thebans were defeated and, by the counsel of the seer Teiresias, fled their city.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Epigonoi   (303 words)

  
 The History of Ancient Greece
According to the Sicyonians the name is derived from Aegialeus the son of Inachus who was its first aboriginal inhabitant and was king reigning in what is now Sicyonia; others say that it is from the land, the greater part of which is coast (aigialos).
Aegialeus founded the city Aegialea on the plain.
Others say that Aegialeus died childless and that Europs was his succesor.
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 Sicyon, Greek Mythology Link.
And if one were to count generations, the line of Aegialeus 2, would be the one reaching farthest into the past, indicating that Aegialeus 2 lived about 670 years before the Trojan War.
Aegialeus 2 is said to be the son of the river god Inachus and the oceanid Melia.
Some have said that he was childless, but others say that he was the father of Europs 1, father of Telchis and Hermion, the founder of the city of Hermione, near Troezen.
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 Royal Houses of Argolis
Inachus married a nymph named Melia, and became the father of two sons, Phoroneus and Aegialeus, and of possibly two daughters, Io and Mycene.
Poseidon and Hera sought to be the patron deity of Argos or Argolis.
When Adrastus' own son, Aegialeus, was killed, the aged king of Argos and the only survivor of the seven champions of the previous war, died of grief.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/argolis.html   (3340 words)

  
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 Adrastus 1, Greek Mythology Link.
The Megarians assert that Adrastus 1 died at Megara of Old Age and grief at the death of his son Aegialeus 1, whom Laodamas 2 killed during the war of the EPIGONI.
And as Diomedes 2 wounded Aphrodite during the Trojan War, the goddess helped her to obtain many lovers, among which were Cometes 2, son of Sthenelus 2, one of the ACHAEAN LEADERS, and Hippolytus 6.
Aegialia is sometimes called daughter of Aegialeus 1.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 108 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
v.) [L. (Ew/>e«Hp), the name of two mythical personages, the one a son of Aegialeus and king of Sicyon, and the other a son of Phoroneus.
He accompanied Diomedes to Troy, where he was one of the bravest heroes, and slew several Trojans.
§ 9.) In the painting of Polygnotus at Delphi, he was represented as being wounded ; and there was also a statue of him at Delphi, which stood between those of Diomedes and Aegialeus.
ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/1216.html   (897 words)

  
 Eusebius: Chronicle (1) - translation
The first king to rule Sicyon was Aegialeus, at the same time as Ninus and Belus, who are the first recorded kings of the Assyrians and of Asia.
There is considerable disagreement amongst the older writers who composed chronicles of Greek history; but, as far as possible, we will copy the accounts which are agreed by most writers.
He is said to have started to rule Sicyon in the 15th year of Belus, the first king of the Assyrians.
www.attalus.org /translate/eusebius1.html   (7195 words)

  
 Compendium of World History - Vol. 1
This Greek name was derived from the city's first king, Aegialeus.
The name Aegialeus in Greek means "man of the coastland" or "shoreland" (Smith's "Classical Dictionary", art.
The ancient routes of migration usually took one along the shores of a river or along coastlands.
cgca.net /coglinks/wcglit/hoehcompendium/hhc1ch17.htm   (4761 words)

  
 Facts and Figures about the Seven Against Thebes and Epigoni
The name of the gates attacked by the Seven was also given in Aeschylus' play.
Aegialeus was the only leader to die in Thebes.
Adrastus, king of Argos died from grief, when he heard that his son (Aegialeus) was killed in battle.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/sevenwar.html   (293 words)

  
 The Progeny
These Epigonoi defeated and killed (or drove out) Laodamas, son of Eteocles, and conquered Thebes, installing Thersander on the throne.
All of the Epigonoi but Aegialeus, the son of Adrastus, or else Alcmaeon, son of Amphiaraus, survived this battle.
The play was lost for centuries, but in April 2005, classicists at Oxford University, employing infrared technology previously used for satellite imaging, discovered fragments of it.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/LX/TheProgeny.html   (214 words)

  
 Pausanias Description of Greece 2.5.1
Subsequently I heard another account, that the Corinthians built the temple for Olympian Zeus, and that suddenly fire from some quarter fell on it and destroyed it.
[2.5.6] The Sicyonians, the neighbours of the Corinthians at this part of the border, say about their own land that Aegialeus was its first and aboriginal inhabitant, that the district of the Peloponnesus still called Aegialus was named after him because he reigned over it, and that he founded the city Aegialea on the plain.
Their citadel, they say, was where is now their sanctuary of Athena; further, that Aegialeus begat Europs, Europs Telchis, and Telchis Apis.
www.abu.nb.ca /courses/NTIntro/images/Pausan5.html   (692 words)

  
 Milton: At Age 16   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
Were the right hand strong to repel destined death, fierce Herades had not lain dead on Aemathian Oeta, poisoned by the blood of Nessus; nor had Ilium seen Hector slain by the base guile of envious Pallas; nor Sarpedon whom the phantom Achilles slew with Locrian sword, whilst Jove wept.
If magic words could put to flight sad fate, the infamous mother of Telegonus had yet lived, and the sister of Aegialeus, who used the powerful wand.
And you, too, Gostlin, greater than your tutor, Apollo, you to whom was given the rule of the gowned race, had not died, whom now leafy Cirrha mourns, and Helicon amid its springs.
www.dartmouth.edu /~milton/reading_room/sylvarum/anno_16/text.shtml   (287 words)

  
 CHURCH FATHERS: Acts of the Disputation with Manes
With that view he invited the leading men of the city; and from among them he selected as judges of the discussion certain adherents of the Gentile religion, four in number.
The names of these umpires were as follows: Manippus, a person deeply versed in the art of grammar and the practice of rhetoric; AEgialeus, a very eminent physician, and a man of the highest reputation for learning; and Claudius and Cleobolus, two brothers famed as rhetoricians.
A splendid assemblage was thus convened; so large, indeed, that the house of Marcellus, which was of immense size, was filled with those who had been called to be hearers.
www.newadvent.org /fathers/0616.htm   (14054 words)

  
 Greek Mythology: TELEDICE / TELEDIKE Naiad Nymph of Argos
By Melia, daughter of Okeanos, he had sons named Phoroneus and Aegialeus.
Although Aegialeus died childless, his whole land was called Aegialeia.
Phoroneus ruled the entire region later called the Peloponnesos, and by a Nymphe named Teledike fathered Apis and Niobe." - Apollodorus, The Library 2.1
www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NympheTeledike.html   (135 words)

  
 Herodotus - The Histories - Page 833
The Sicyonians kept these names, not only during the reign of Clisthenes, but even after his death, by the space of sixty years.
Then, however, they took counsel together, and changed to the well-known names of Hyllaeans, Pamphylians, and Dymanatae, taking at the same time, as a fourth name, the title of Aegialeans, from Aegialeus the son of Adrastus.
Translated by George Rawlinson, first issued in 1858.
www.galileolibrary.com /ebooks/eu04/herodotus_page_833.htm   (199 words)

  
 Euripides - Plays - Characters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
His parents refused but his wife Alcestis agreed; Alcestis, however, was brought back from Death by Heracles, who also enjoyed Admetus' hospitality.
Son of Talaos and Lysimache, king of Argos, brother of Mecisteus, Aristomachos, Pronax, Eriphyle, Astynome and (sometimes) Parthenopaios; husband of Amphithea (his niece, daughter of Pronax), father of Argeia, Deipyle, Hippodameia, Aigialeia, Aegialeus and Cyanippos; uncle of Hippomedon, Capaneus, Alcmaion and Amphilochos.
After various adventures as a young man, Adrastos was king of Argos when he gave his daughter Deipyle to Polyneices in marriage.
www.nottingham.ac.uk /classics/staff/LSF/Euripides/characters.html   (5709 words)

  
 A Smaller Classical Dictionary of Biography, Mythology and Geography - giale, Aegialea, Aegialeus, Aegides, Aegilia, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
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