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{{Short description|Ancient Greek mythological figure}}
{{for-multi|the Ancient Greek epic poem|Aegimius (poem)|the ancient Greek physician|Aegimus}}
'''Aegimius''' ([[Ancient Greek]]: Αἰγίμιος) was the [[Greek mythology|Greek mythological]] ancestor of the [[Dorians]], who is described as their king and lawgiver at the time when they were yet inhabiting the northern parts of [[Thessaly]].<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Pythian Odes'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Pind.+P.+1&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Aegimius 1.124] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Pind.+P.+5&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Aegimius 5.96]</ref>

== Mythology ==
Aegimius asked [[Heracles]] for help in a war against the [[Lapiths]] (who were led by Coronus who was an argonaut and the son of Caenus) and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom. The Lapiths were conquered, but Heracles did not take for himself the territory promised to him by Aegimius, and left it in trust to the king, who was to preserve it for the sons of Heracles, the [[Heracleidae]].<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.7.7&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Aegimius 2.7.7]; [[Diodorus Siculus]], [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#37.3 4.37.3]–[https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/4B*.html#37.4 4]</ref>

Aegimius had two sons, [[Dymas]] and [[Pamphylus (mythology)|Pamphylus]], who migrated to the [[Peloponnese]] and were regarded as the ancestors of two branches of the Doric race, the ''Dymanes'' and the ''[[Pamphylia]]ns'' of Anatolia, while the third branch, the ''Hylleans'', derived its name from [[Hyllas]], the son of Heracles, who had been adopted by Aegimius.<ref>Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+2.8.3&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Aegimius 2.8.3]; [[Scholia]] on Pindar, ''Pythian Ode'' 1.121</ref>

There existed in antiquity an [[epic poem]] ''[[Aegimius (poem)|Aegimius]]'' of which a few fragments are extant,<ref>{{Citation  | last = Schmitz  | first = Leonhard  | contribution = Aegimius  | editor-last = Smith  | editor-first = William  | title = [[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]  | volume = 1  | pages = 26  | place = Boston  | year = 1867  | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0035.html  | access-date = 2007-10-19  | archive-date = 2009-02-11  | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090211114659/http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0035.html  | url-status = dead  }}</ref> and which is sometimes ascribed to [[Hesiod]] and sometimes to [[Cercops|Cercops of Miletus]].<ref>[[Athenaeus]], 11. p. 503; [[Stephanus of Byzantium]], s.v. ''[https://topostext.org/work/241#A3.1 Abantis (Αβαντίς)]''</ref> The poem, printed among Hesiodic fragments,<ref>[http://mcllibrary.org/Hesiod/frag2.html ''Hesiod: Fragments'', translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914: on-line text].</ref> survives in fewer than a dozen quotations, and seems to have been in part concerned with the myth of [[Io (mythology)|Io]] and [[Argus Panoptes|Argos Panoptes]].

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== References ==

* [[Athenaeus|Athenaeus of Naucratis]]. ''The Deipnosophists or Banquet of the Learned.'' London. Henry G. Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden. 1854.  [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0003 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library].
* Athenaeus of Naucratis. ''Deipnosophistae''. Kaibel. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1887. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2013.01.0001 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Diodorus Siculus]], ''The Library of History'' translated by [[Charles Henry Oldfather]]. Twelve volumes. [[Loeb Classical Library]]. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59&ndash;8. [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Diodorus_Siculus/home.html Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site]
* Diodorus Siculus, ''Bibliotheca Historica. Vol 1-2''. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0540 Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Pindar]], ''Odes'' translated by Diane Arnson Svarlien. 1990. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162%3Abook%3DP. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* Pindar, ''The Odes of Pindar'' including the Principal Fragments with an Introduction and an English Translation by Sir John Sandys, Litt.D., FBA. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1937. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0161%3Abook%3DP. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library].
* [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|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}}. [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0022 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.] [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0021 Greek text available from the same website].
* [[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. [https://topostext.org/work/241 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]

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