In Greek mythology, Azaes (Ancient Greek: Ἀζάης) was one of the ten sons of Poseidon and Cleito in Plato's myth of Atlantis.[1]
Family
editAzaes was the elder brother of Diaprepes and his other siblings were Atlas and Eumelus, Ampheres and Evaemon, Mneseus and Autochthon, and lastly, Elasippus and Mestor.[2]
Mythology
editAzaeas, along with his nine siblings, became the heads of ten royal houses, each ruling a tenth portion of the island, according to a partition made by Poseidon himself, but all subject to the supreme dynasty of Atlas who was the eldest of the ten.[3]
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edit- Plato, Critias in Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available at the same website.