Aegaeon (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Aegaeon (Greek: Αἰγαίων, translit. Aigaíōn, lit. "goatish", "stormy", "Aegean") may refer to the following figures:

  • Aegaeon also called Briareus, one of the Hecatonchires.[1]
  • Aegaeon, one of the Gigantes.
  • Aegaeon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of King Lycaon. These sons were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. Aegaeon together with his brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. He was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[2]
For other uses, see Aegaeon.

Notes
  1. See Virgil, Aeneid 6.287: "et centumgeminus Briareus ac belua Lernae"
  2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.8.1

References
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
  • Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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