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» For the ancient Greek physician sometimes called Aegimius, see Aegimus.
Aegimius (
Gr. Αιγίμιος) 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. He asked
Heracles for help in a war against the
Lapiths and, in gratitude, offered him one-third of his kingdom. The Lapiths were conquered, but Heracles didn't 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.
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 (Dymanes and Pamphylians), while the third branch derived its name from
Hyllas (Hylleans), the son of Heracles, who had been adopted by Aegimius.
There existed in antiquity an epic poem called "Aegimius," of which a few fragments are still extant,
and which is sometimes ascribed to
Hesiod and sometimes to
Cercops of Miletus. The poem survives in fewer than a dozen quotations, and seems to have been in part concerned with the myth of
Io and
Argos Panoptes.
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