Aegialeus

A son of the river god Inachus and the Oceanid Melia. A part of the Peloponnese derived its name of him, namely Achaea.1

According to a Sicyonian tradition, he was an autochton, the brother of Phoroneus and first king of Sicyon. The foundation of the town of Aegialeia was ascribed to him.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library ii, 1.1.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 5.5; vii, 1.1.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.