Pagasaeus

I.e. the Pagasaean, from Pegasus, or Pegasae, a town in Thessaly, is a surname of Apollo, who there had a sanctuary said to have been built by Trophonius,1 and of Jason, because the ship Argo was said to have been built at Pagasus.

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References

Notes

  1. Hesiod. Shield of Heracles, 70, with the Scholiast.
  2. Ovid. Metamorphoses vii, 1; Heroides xvi, 345.

Source

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

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.