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  HERACLIDAE - LoveToKnow Article on HERACLIDAE
They withdrew to Thessaly, where Aegimius, the mythical ancestor of the Donians, whom Heracles had assisted in war against the Lapithae, adopted Hyllus and made over to him a third part of his territory.
After the death of Aegimius, his two sons, Pamphilus and Dymas, voluntarily submitted to Hyllus (who was, according to the Donian tradition in Herodotus V. 72, really an Achaean), who thus became ruler of the Dorians, the three branches of that race being named after these three heroes.
Being desirous of reconquening his paternal inheritance, Hyllus consulted the Delphic oracle, which told him to wait for the third fruit, and then enter Peloponnesus by a narrow passage by sea.
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 Aegimius -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Aegimius was the Greek mythological ancestor of the (A member of one of the four divisions of the prehistoric Greeks) Dorians.
Heracles refused and Aegimius instead raised Heracles' son, (Click link for more info and facts about Hyllas) Hyllas, alongside his own two sons, (Click link for more info and facts about Dymas) Dymas and (Click link for more info and facts about Pamphylus) Pamphylus, who both submitted to Hyllas after their father's death.
The names of the three Dorian tribes are derived from the three sons of Aegimius: (Click link for more info and facts about Hylles) Hylles, Dymanes and Pamphylii.
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 Aegimius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He asked Heracles for help in a war against the Lapiths and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom.
Heracles refused and Aegimius instead raised Heracles' son, Hyllas, alongside his own two sons, Dymas and Pamphylus, who both submitted to Hyllas after their father's death.
The names of the three Dorian tribes are derived from the three sons of Aegimius: Hylles, Dymanes and Pamphylii.
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 DORIANS - LoveToKnow Article on DORIANS
His descendants, either under Dorus or under a later king Aegimius, occupied Histiaeotis, a district of northern Thessaly, and afterwards conquered from the Dryopes the head-waters of the Boeotian Cephissus between Mount Parnassus and Mount Oeta.
The last of these attempts resulted in the Dorian conquest of the Achaeans and lonians of Peloponnese, and in the assignment of Argolis, Laconia and Messenia to the Heracleid leaders, Temenus, Aristodemus and Cresphontes respectively; of Elis to their Aetolian allies; and of the north coast to the remnants of the conquered Achaeans.
In the 5th century Pindar ascribes to Aegimius the institutions of the Peloponnesian Dorians, and describes them as the Dorian folk of Hyilus and Aegimius, and as originating from Pindus (Pyth.
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 Aegimius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Aegimius tried to reward Heracles with a third of his land, but Heracles graciously declined the offer.
Aegimius therefor adopted Heracles' son Hyllus as his own son to show his gratitude.
Together with the other two sons of Aegimius, namely Pamphylus and Dymas, Hyllus lend his nbame to the three Dorian tribes: Pamphylii, Dymanes, and Hylles.
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 LAPITHS, Greek Mythology Link.
In the battle that ensued, Theseus, Pirithous, and the LAPITHS defeated the CENTAURS, and drove them from Mount Pelion in Thessaly to Aethicia, which is a territory near Epirus (the Adriatic coastal region of Greece between the Ambracian Gulf and Illyria [Albania]).
On another occasion, a conflict about boundaries arose between King Aegimius 1 of the Dorians (son of Dorus 1, son of Hellen 1, son of Deucalion 1, the man who survived the Flood), and King Coronus 1 of the LAPITHS, son of Caeneus 1.
Heracles 1, they say, entrusted the land he had won to Aegimius 1 to be kept in favour of his descendants, and on his death, Aegimius 1 adopted Hyllus 1, son of Heracles 1.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 26 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Lapithae were conquered, but Heracles did not take for himself the territory promised to him by Aegimius, and left it in trust to the king who was to preserve it for the sons of Heracles.
37.) Aegimius had two sons, Dymas and Pamphylus, who migrated to Pelopon­nesus and were regarded as the ancestors of two branches of the Doric race (Dymanes and Pam-phylians), while the third branch derived its name from Hyllus (Hylleans), the son of Heracles, who had been adopted by Aegimius.
There existed in antiquity an epic poem called " Aegimius," of which a few fragments are still extant, and which is sometimes ascribed to Hesiod and sometimes to Cercops of Miletus.
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 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 443 (v. 2)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Alylfjuos, an epic poem, consisting of several books or rhapsodies on the story of Aegimius, the famous ancestral hero of the Dorians, and the my­thical history of the Dorians in general.
Some of the ancients attributed this poem to Cercops of Miletus.
46.) The fragments of the Aegimius are collected in Gottling's edit, of Hesiod, p.
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 Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica - Homer - Free Online Library
587: But the author of the "Aegimius" says that he (Phrixus) was received without intermediary because of the fleece (1).
816: The author of the "Aegimius" says in the second book that Thetis used to throw the children she had by Peleus into a cauldron of water, because she wished to learn where they were mortal....
Gen.: Hesiod (says there were so called) because they settled in three groups: `And they all were called the Three-fold people, because they divided in three the land far from their country.' For (he says) that three Hellenic tribes settled in Crete, the Pelasgi, Achaeans and Dorians.
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 Greece, A History of Ancient Greece, The Dorians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
According to this tradition, the sons of Heracles, the Heraclidae, were driven from their homeland in the Peloponnese by Eurystheus of Mycenae.
The Heraclidae took refuge with Aegimius, the king of Doris.
Several generations later, the Heraclid brothers Temenus, Aristodemus, and Cresphontes led the "Dorians" back in a successful invasion of the Peloponnese and thus recovered their heritage.
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 DORIANS - Online Information article about DORIANS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
king Aegimius, occupied Histiaeotis, a district of northern Thessaly, and afterwards conquered from the Dryopes the See also:
Tyrtaeus, a 7th-century poet, in the service of Sparta, who brings the Spartan Heracleids to Peloponnese from Erineon in the northern Doris; and the lost Epic of Aegimius, of about the same date, seems to have presupposed the same See also:
Pindar ascribes to Aegimius the institutions of the Peloponnesian Dorians, and describes them as the " Dorian folk of Hyilus and Aegimius," and as " originating from See also:
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 Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns and Homerica: The Marriage of Ceyx to Doubtful
-- DBK) AEGIMIUS (fragments) Fragment #1 -- Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.
He says that after the sacrifice he purified the fleece and so: `Holding the fleece he walked into the halls of Aeetes.' Fragment #2 -- Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, Arg.
503: And the author of the "Aegimius", whether he is Hesiod or Cercops of Miletus (says): `There, some day, shall be my place of refreshment, O leader of the people.' Fragment #8 -- Etym.
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 Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica - Fragments IV
But the author of the "Aegimius" says that he (Phrixus) was received without intermediary because of the fleece (1).
And the author of the "Aegimius", whether he is Hesiod or Cercops of Miletus (says): `There, some day, shall be my place of refreshment, O leader of the people.'
Hesiod (says there were so called) because they settled in three groups: `And they all were called the Three-fold people, because they divided in three the land far from their country.' For (he says) that three Hellenic tribes settled in Crete, the Pelasgi, Achaeans and Dorians.
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 Immortal Journey: The Tales of Heracles, Leo, Cancer, Sagittarius, Centaurus, Draco, Sagitta and Cerberus. Chapter 14: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The army continued on to Trachis, where they conquered the Dryopes as a gift for their host, King Ceyx.
Next they joined forces with the Dorian king Aegimius for a share of conquered lands.
They overpowered the Lapiths, killing their king Coronus, but all the conquered lands were given to King Aegimius.
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 Heroines
Then according to his sources from Acousilaus and Hesiod (in a poem called Aegimius), Io's father was Peiren.
According to the Aegimius (a poem ascribed to Hesiod), Zeus had brought her to the island of Abantis (Euboea), so he could seduce the maiden.
But Hera arrived, so Zeus changed into a white cow.
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 HESIOD - Online Information article about HESIOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Titles and fragments of other lost poems of Hesiod have come down to us: didactic, as the See also:
Maxims of Cheiron; genealogical, as the Aegimius, describing the contest of that mythical ancestor of the See also:
Marriage of Ceyx and the Descent of See also:
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 Royal Houses of Argolis
According to Apollodorus, each of his sons ruled after the other.
While Peiras (Peiren) was said to be the father of Io, according to Hesiod, in the fragmented poem, titled Aegimius.
Though, Argus had another son Iasus (Iasos), by a different nymph named Ismene, daughter of the river-god Asopus (Asopos).
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