Azeus
In Greek mythology, Azeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀζεύς) was a Minyan prince as the youngest among the sons of King Clymenus of Orchomenus.[1]
Family
[edit]Azeus mother was probably Boudeia, daughter of Lycus.[2] He was the brother of Erginus,[3] Stratius, Arrhon, Pyleus,[4] Eurydice[5] and Axia.[6] Azeus was the father of King Actor, father of Astyoche who coupled with Ares and begat Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, the Orchomenian leaders during the Trojan War.[7]
Mythology
[edit]Azeus went with his brothers, under the command of Erginus against Thebes, to take vengeance for the murder of his father, who had been slain by the Thebans at a festival of the Onchestian Poseidon.[8]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Pausanias, 9.37.1 & 7
- ^ Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.185
- ^ Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad 1076.26; Scholia ad Iliad 16.572; ad Apollonius Rhodius, 1.185; Pausanias, 9.37.1
- ^ Pausanias, 9.37.1
- ^ Homer, Odyssey 3.452
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Axia
- ^ Homer, Iliad 2.511 ff; Pausanias, 9.37.7
- ^ Pausanias, 9.37.2
References
[edit]- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. ISBN 978-0674995796. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. ISBN 978-0198145318. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. ISBN 978-0674995611. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- 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.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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