Aegimius (Ancient Greek: Αἰγίμιος) was the 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.
[1] Aegimius asked Heracles for help in a war against the Lapiths and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom.
[2] Aegimius had two sons, Dymas and Pamphylus, who migrated to the Peloponnese and were regarded as the ancestors of two branches of the Doric race, the Dymanes and the Pamphylians of Anatolia, while the third branch, the Hylleans, derived its name from Hyllas, the son of Heracles, who had been adopted by Aegimius.
[3] There existed in antiquity an epic poem Aegimius of which a few fragments are extant,[4] and which is sometimes ascribed to Hesiod and sometimes to Cercops of Miletus.
[5] The poem, printed among Hesiodic fragments,[6] survives in fewer than a dozen quotations, and seems to have been in part concerned with the myth of Io and Argos Panoptes.