Aëropos (son of Temenus)

Aëropos ( Greek  Ἀέροπος [Aéropos]) was the brother of the mythical founder of the Macedonian royal dynasty .

myth

Aeropos, son of Temenos of Argos , fled with his brothers Gauanes and Perdickas from Argos via Illyria to Macedonia, where they tended the royal cattle. The king ordered them to leave the country unpaid. They settled near the gardens of Midas and from there conquered Macedonia.

swell

• Herodotus Histories  - 8,137 f.

literature

• Roscher: Aëropos 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 88 ( digitized version ).