Aeëtes in Wikipedia
In Greek mythology, Aeetes (also spelled Æetes) (Greek:
Αἰήτης), (Laz: Ayet), (Georgian აიეტი), was a 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. King of Colchis (ancient kingdom of Lazs and
Georgia). According to others, he was brother of Perses, a
king of Tauris, husband of his niece Hecate, and father of
Circe, Medea and Aegialeus.
Pausanias states that, according to the poet Eumelos, Aeetes
was the son of Helios (from northern Peloponnesus) and brother
of Aloeus. Helios divided the land he ruled, and he gave
Aloeus the part in Asopia (see Asopus) and Aeetes the part of
Ephyra (Corinthos). Later, Aeetes gave his kingdom to Bounos,
a son of Hermes and Alkidameia, and went to Colchis, a country
in western Caucasus. When Bounos died, Epopeus, a son of
Aloeus who ruled in Asopia, became king of Ephyra too. Aeetes
built a new colony in Colchis, near the mouth of the large
river Phasis, and called it Aea...
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