Aigestos
Aigestos ( Greek Αἴγεστος ) is a person in classical Greco-Roman mythology . He is the son of Trojan parents who fled to Sicily. Aigestus returned to Troy and fought with Elymos in the Trojan War . After returning to Sicily, he founded the city of Segesta there .
According to Servius, however, he is a son of the Sicilian river god Krimisos and a Trojan nymph named Egesta or Segesta.
Virgil tells how Aigestus, who is called Acestes here, welcomes Aeneas on his flight from Troy and helps him bury his father Anchises . In the funeral games that followed, he was the archery winner.
literature
- Fritz Graf : Aigestos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , column 317.
- Johannes Toepffer : Aigestes, Aigestos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, Stuttgart 1893ff., Col. 951 f.
- Emil Wörner : Aigestes 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 143 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Dionysios of Halicarnassus Antiquitates Romanae 1.52
- ↑ Maurus Servius Honoratius In Vergili Carmina Commentariorum 1,550
- ↑ Virgil Aeneid I, 550; V, 36.61.73