Azeus Explained

In Greek mythology, Azeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀζεύς) was a Minyan prince as the youngest among the sons of King Clymenus of Orchomenus.^[1]

Family

Azeus mother was probably Boudeia, daughter of Lycus.^[2] He was the brother of Erginus,^[3] Stratius, Arrhon, Pyleus,^[4] Eurydice^[5] and Axia.^[6] Azeus was the father of King Actor, father of Astyoche who coupled with Ares and begat Ascalaphus and Ialmenus, the Orchomenian leaders during the Trojan War.^[7]

Mythology

Azeus went with his brothers, under the command of Erginus against Thebes, to take vengeance for the murder of his father, who had been slain by the Thebans at a festival of the Onchestian Poseidon.^[8]

Notes

1. [Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]
2. [Scholia]
3. [Eustathius of Thessalonica|Eustathius]
4. Pausanias, 9.37.1
5. Homer, Odyssey 3.452
6. Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Axia
7. Homer, Iliad 2.511 ff; Pausanias, 9.37.7
8. Pausanias, 9.37.2

References

• Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920. . Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer, The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1919. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.