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* Aeëtes, King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis, ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus
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Aeëtes and King
* Medea, the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis in Greek mythology
She was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, with whom she had two children, Mermeros and Pheres.
Upon their arrival Jason requested the Golden Fleece from the King of Colchis, Aeëtes.
In Greek mythology, Aeëtes ( also spelled Æëtes ) (), ( Laz and Georgian Aiet ' i, აიეტი ), was a King of Colchis, son of the sun-god Helios and the Oceanid Perseis ( a daughter of Oceanus ), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus.
During their flight Helle swooned, fell off the ram and drowned in the Dardanelles, renamed the Hellespont ( sea of Helle ), but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King Aeëtes, the son of the sun god Helios, took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter, Chalciope, in marriage.
Helle fell off the ram into the Hellespont ( which was named after her ) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King Aeëtes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope in marriage.
Here in the sacred grove of the war god Ares, King Aeëtes hung the Golden Fleece until it was seized by Jason and the Argonauts.
* Medea, daughter of King Aeëtes
* Chalciope, daughter of King Aeëtes
* Circe, sister of King Aeëtes
Believing him dead, Jason and his men accept an invitation from King Aeëtes ( Jack Gwillim ) to a feast, where they are captured and imprisoned.
* Jack Gwillim as King Aeëtes
Jason openly told King Aeëtes that he had come for the Fleece.
It is widely believed by historians that when Apollonius Rhodius was writing about Jason and the Argonauts and their legendary journey to Colchis, Kutaisi / Aia was the final destination of the Argonauts and the residence of King Aeëtes.
Aeëtes and Colchis
Medea then returned to Colchis and, finding that Aeëtes had been deposed by his brother Perses, promptly killed her uncle, and restored the kingdom to her father.
Later, Aeëtes gave his kingdom to Bounos, a son of Hermes and Alkidameia, and went to Colchis, a country in western Caucasus.
Aeëtes built a new colony in Colchis, near the mouth of the large river Phasis, and called it Aea.
Helle fell off the ram into the Hellespont ( which was named after her ) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where Aeëtes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter Chalciope in marriage.
In Greek mythology, Colchis was the home of Aeëtes and Medea and the destination of the Argonauts ; Colchis is also thought to be the possible homeland of the Amazons.
The modern Greek scholar Ioannis Kakridis insists that any attempt at realistic identification is vain, arguing that Homer vaguely located Aeaea somewhere in the eastern part of his world, perhaps near Colchis, since Circe was the sister of Aeëtes, king of Colchis, and because the goddess Dawn had her palace there.
In the same poem, Aeëtes remarks on the great distance between Colchis and Aeaea in these terms:
" Aeaean " was an epithet of Circe and her niece Medea (), who were the sister and daughter of Aeëtes, the ruler of Aea () in Colchis Circe's son Telegonus is likewise given this epithet.
Aeëtes and son
Yet other versions make Aeëtes a native of Corinth and son of Ephyra, or else of a certain Antiope.
Pausanias states that, according to the poet Eumelos, Aeëtes was the son of Helios ( from northern Peloponnesus ) and brother of Aloeus.
Aeëtes paused to gather the pieces of his son, and thus Medea and Jason escaped.
* Aegialeus was, in a tradition followed by Pacuvius, Justin, and Diodorus, the name given to the son of Aeëtes, who was murdered by Medea.
* Absyrtus, son of Aeëtes
Absyrtus, or Apsyrtus ( Greek: was in Greek mythology the son of Aeëtes and a brother of Medea and Chalciope.
A tradition followed by Pacuvius, Justin, and Diodorus, called the son of Aeëtes, who was murdered by Medea.
Aeëtes and Helios
Helios divided the land he ruled, and he gave Aloeus the part in Asopia ( see Asopus ) and Aeëtes the part of Ephyra ( Corinthos ).
Aeëtes and daughter
Medea, daughter of Aeëtes, fell in love with Jason, and being endowed with magical powers, aided him in his completion of the difficult task.
Aeëtes and ),
The earlier writers only speak about it under the name of Aea ( Aia ), the residence of the mythical king Aeëtes: " Kolchian Aia lies at the furthest limits of sea and earth ," wrote Apollonius of Rhodes.
According to Gnaeus Gellius ( late 2nd century BC ), Angitia was one of the three daughters of Aeëtes, along with Medea and Circe, two of the most famed sorceresses of Greek myth.
Aeëtes and brother
Aeëtes pursued them in his own ship as they fled, but Medea distracted her father by killing and dismembering her brother, Apsyrtus, and throwing pieces of his cadaver overboard.
Aeëtes and father
The Colchians arrived soon after in pursuit of Medea and demanded to take her back to face punishment for the death of her father, Aeëtes.
Aeëtes and Medea
According to the Roman historian Tacitus, the Iberians " claimed Thessalian origin, dating from the time when Jason, after leaving with Medea and their children, returned to the empty palace of Aeëtes and the kingless Colchians ".
King and Colchis
It was owned by King Aeetes of Colchis.
Like her doublet Europa, her origins were in the East, in her case at Colchis, the palace of the Sun ; she was given in marriage to King Minos of Crete.
Helle, though, did look down, and fell off the ram into the Hellespont ( which was named after her, meaning Sea of Helle ) and drowned, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King Aeetes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter, Chalciope, in marriage.
Helle fell off the ram into the Hellespont ( which was named after her, meaning Sea of Helle ) and drowned, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King Aeetes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter, Chalciope, in marriage.
* Chalciope, daughter of King Aeetes of Colchis, sister of Medea and wife of Phrixus, by whom she had four sons: Argus, Phrontis, Melas and Cytisorus ( some authors add Presbon ).
Helle fell off the ram into the Hellespont ( which was named after her ) and died, but Phrixus survived all the way to Colchis, where King Aeetes took him in and treated him kindly, giving Phrixus his daughter, Chalciope, in marriage.
At Colchis, Acastus and Jason disagree on how to approach the King of Colchis, and eventually fight.
After his defeat by Roman General Pompey in 63 BCE, King Mithridates VI of Pontus fled with a small army from Colchis ( modern Georgia ) over the Caucasus Mountains to Crimea and made plans to raise yet another army to take on the Romans.
Racha had been part of Colchis and Caucasian Iberia since ancient times and its main town Oni was said to have been founded by King Parnajom of Iberia in the 2nd century BC.
* Pacorus made King of the Ladii in Colchis by Roman emperor Antoninus Pius
When Phrixos arrived at Colchis he sacrificed the ram to Zeus and presented the golden fleece to his father-in-law, the King of Colchis.
* Polemon I of Pontus, the name of a Roman Client King of Cilicia, Colchis, Pontus and the Bosporan Kingdom
* Polemon II of Pontus son to the above, Roman Client King of Cilicia, Colchis and Pontus in Anatolia
In the 1st century BC, after his defeat by Pompey in 63 BC, Mithradates VI, King of Pontus, fled with a small army from Colchis ( modern Georgia ) over the Caucasus Mountains to Crimea and made plans to raise yet another army to take on the Romans.
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