Androgeos
Androgeos ( Greek Ἀνδρόγεως ) is in Greek mythology a son of the Cretan king Minos and the Pasiphae . According to the library of Apollodorus (2, 5, 9) he was the father of Sthenelos and Alcaios .
The Attic king Aigeus killed Androgeus because he won all prizes in a competition. According to Diodorus , Aigeus caused Androgeos to be insidiously murdered by locals on the way to Thebes near the Attic Oinoe . Androgeus had won all competitions at the Panathenaic and befriended the sons of Pallas , so that Aigeus feared that Minos might help the Pallas sons to overthrow him. Another version of the story says that Aigeus sent Androgeos to kill the Cretan bull and Androgeos perished himself trying to kill the bull. As atonement, the Athenians had to send seven young people every nine years to sacrifice for the Minotaur in Crete. It wasn't until Theseus killed the bull that this custom ended. The narrative could suggest that Minoan Crete may have ruled parts of early Mycenaean Greece at times before Mycenaean Greeks conquered Crete.
literature
- Johannes Toepffer : Androgeos 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2143-2145.
- Fritz Graf : Androgeos. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , column 688 f.
Remarks
- ↑ Diodorus 4, 60, 4 f.