Ardeias

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Ardeias ( Greek  Ἀρδείας ) is a figure in Greek mythology .

According to the Greek historian Xenagoras , Ardeias was one of three sons of Odysseus and the sorceress Kirke ; his brothers were called Rhomos and Anteias . Ardeias and his brothers founded three cities in Latium , which they named after themselves, namely Ardea , Rome and Antium .

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  1. Xenagoras in Dionysius of Halicarnassus , Antiquitates Romanae 1, 72, 5; Eusebius of Caesarea , Chronicle p. 205 ed. Schoene; Stephanos of Byzantium , Ethnika , s. Anteia and Ardea .