Aigaion (mythology)

Aigaion ( Greek  Αἰγαίων ) is the god of sea storms in Greek mythology .

In a Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes , Aigaion appears as the (eponymous) sea deity of the Aegean Sea and son of Gaia and Pontus . For Ovid and Philostratus , too , he is a sea deity, for the latter even the originator of earthquakes.

According to Ion of Chios , Aigaion was a powerful son of Thalassa , who, called by Thetis , assisted Zeus in a family dispute when Hera , Poseidon and Athena tried to tie him up.

In Homer , Aigaion appears as the father of Hekatoncheiren Briareos, but he is also identified with him, as in Virgil and in the Lent of Ovid . The Hekatoncheirs were helpers of Zeus in the Titanomachy . At Kallimachus, however, Aigaion is a giant trapped under Mount Etna , and thus one of Zeus's opponents in the Gigantomachy .

literature

• Julius Adolf Bernhard : Aigaion . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 140-143 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• Aegaios in the Theoi Project

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eumelos of Corinth Titanomachia , Scholion zu Argonautika 1.1165
2. ↑ Ovid Metamorphoses 2.10
3. ↑ Philostratos vita Apollonii 4.6
4. ^ Ion from Chios fragment 741
5. ↑ Homer Iliad 1,397
6. ↑ Virgil Aeneis 10.565 Virgil: Aeneis, 10th book: Götterrat, Aeneas' return with the fleet, battle (German translation by WABHertzberg)
7. ↑ Ovid Fasti 3.793ff
8. ↑ Kallimachus Delic Hymn 140ff