Aegimius (poem)

[1] The "Aegimius" of the title was surely the son of Dorus, but the surviving fragments have nothing to do directly with this figure, and, despite his status as title character, it cannot be inferred from the available evidence that the poem was primarily concerned with the Dorian king.

[2] Instead other myths, such as those concerning Io, Theseus, and the golden fleece, are found among the handful of fragments preserved in other ancient authors as quotations and paraphrases.

[3] One of the fragments cited for book 2 relates the gruesome story that Thetis cast numerous of her children by Peleus into a cauldron of boiling water to see whether they were mortal, before her husband intervened in the case of Achilles.

299) and a rare Greek word for a "cool shady place" (ψυκτήριον, psyktērion) found in a context-less hexameter quoted by Athenaeus (Deipnosophistae 11.109.503c–d = fr.

ἔνθά ποτ' ἔσται ἐμὸν ψυκτήριον, ὄρχαμε λαῶν One day my cool shady place will be here, leader of men The small scraps of information found in these fragments represent most of our knowledge of the Aegimius' content, but the poem's greatest points of literary historical interest are found in its treatments of the myths of Io and Theseus.