Aigimios
Aigimios ( Greek Αἰγίμιος ) is the son of Doros in Greek mythology and the mythical progenitor and legislator of the Dorians , whose first king he was when the Dorians were still settling in northern Thessaly . His sons were Pamphylos and Dymas .
In the joint attempt with Hyllos to conquer Aegina, Heracles helped him to victory when he was almost defeated by the Lapith Koronos . Heracles refused the promise made when he asked for help to give him a third of his kingdom, and instead demanded what was promised for his descendants, the Heraclids . However, Aigimios adopted the Hyllos and put him on an equal footing with his own sons Pamphylos and Dymas. From then on, the three formed the eponymous heroes of the Doric Phylenes : the Hylleer, the Dymanen and the Pamphylen.
Aigimios was probably the central figure of his own epic, which passed on his myth and was ascribed either to Hesiod or Kerkops of Miletus , of which only a few fragments and mentions have survived.
literature
- Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Aigimios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 148 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pindar , Pythische Oden 1, 124; Diodorus 4, 37 and 58; Herodotus 1, 56; Strabon 427; Stephanos of Byzantium sv Δώριον .
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 8, 3.
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 7, 7.
- ↑ Stephanos of Byzantium sv Δυμᾶνες .