Aegialeus

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In Greek mythology, Aegialeus (also Aegealeus, Egialeus) was the elder son of Adrastus, a king of Argos, and Amphithea.[1]

Aegialeus was identified as one of the Epigoni, who avenged their fathers' disaterous attack on the city of Thebes by retaking the city, by both Pausanius and Hellanikos. While his father was the only one of the Seven Against Thebes who did not die in the battle, Aegialeus was the only one of the leaders of the Epigoni who was killed while they retook the city. Laodamas, the son of Eteocles, killed him at Glisas, and he was buried at Pagae in Megaris.[2]

Adrastus died of grief after his son's death, and Cyanippus, who was either the son or the brother of Aegialeus, succeeded him as the king of Argos.


A second Aegialus was, according to Eusebius, the first king and founder of the Greek city of Sicyon, west of Corinth in Peloponnesus.

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Tripp, Edward. Crowell's Handbook of Classical Mythology. New York: Thomas Crowell Press, p.18
  2. ^ Pausanius. Description of Greece. 1.44.4
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