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Aegaeon (mythology)

For other uses, see Aegaeon.

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 Hecatoncheires.[1]
  • Aegaeon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,[2] Nonacris[3] or by unknown woman. He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Aegaeon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[4]
  1. ^ See Virgil, Aeneid 6.287: "et centumgeminus Briareus ac belua Lernae"
  2. ^ Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
  3. ^ Pausanias, 8.17.6
  4. ^ Apollodorus, 3.8.1

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