Archelaus (son of Temenus)
Archelaos ( Greek Ἀρχέλαος ) is a figure in Greek mythology .
After the tragedy Archelaos by the Greek playwright Euripides , who wrote this play during a stay at the court of the Macedonian king Archelaus I , the eponymous eponymous hero was the son of Temenos and thus a descendant of Heracles . Driven out by his brothers, he had to go into exile in Macedonia to see King Kisseus . He asked Archelaus for help in a difficult war with a neighboring people and in return assured him that he would hand over the rule of his kingdom and the hand of his daughter. Archelaus succeeded in defeating the enemies of Kisseus in a battle, but afterwards the king showed himself ungrateful and wanted to plunge the hero into a glowing coal mine instead of the promised reward. A slave of the king reported this betrayal to Archelaus, who then threw Kisseus himself into the pit and fled. On the orders of the god Apollo , Heraclid , led by a goat, then founded the city of Aigai .
literature
- Ulrich Hoefer : Archelaos 1) . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, column 445 f.
Remarks
- ^ Hyginus Mythographus , Fabulae 219.