Aegialeus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Aegialeus (Ancient Greek: Αἰγιαλεύς derived from αἰγιαλός aigialos "beach, sea-shore") also Aegealeus, Aigialeus, Egialeus, was the name of several individuals:

Aegialeus (King of Sicyon), founder of Sicyon as 'Aegialea'^[1]
Aegialeus (King of Argos), elder son of Adrastus, a king of Argos.^[2]
Aegialeus, an alternative name given by some scholars for Absyrtus, the son of King Aeëtes of Colchis. He was murdered by his sister Medea.^[3]

Notes

^ Pausanias, 2.5.6
^ Apollodorus, 1.9.13.
^ Diodorus Siculus, 4.45.5; Justin, 42.3; Pacuvius as cited in Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.48

References

Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1–2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, Nature of the Gods from the Treatises of M.T. Cicero translated by Charles Duke Yonge (1812-1891), Bohn edition of 1878. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
Marcus Tullius Cicero, De Natura Deorum. O. Plasberg. Leipzig. Teubner. 1917. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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[1] Pausanias, 2.5.6

[2] Apollodorus, 1.9.13.

[3] Diodorus Siculus, 4.45.5; Justin, 42.3; Pacuvius as cited in Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.48

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