#aegeus

[izzytheace]

Consider:

Supportive Shade being Aegeus.

It's hilarious to me. Showing up to a massive show that has your son that you knew for a month who accidentally caused your death because he forgot to change the sails like an idiot, only to root for that guy he hates a lot. It would destroy Theseus emotionally and mentally

[tylermileslockett]

Theseus #2 (the Journey to Athens and the Six Labors)

king Aegeus stops over to visit king Pitheus who, understanding the prophecy, offers his own daughter, Aethra, and after getting the king drunk, the two lay together. The same night, Aethra is visited by Athena in a dream who instructs the princess to visit the oceanside to pray for blessings. Here Poseidon appears and couples with her. Thus, Aethra is impregnated by both a king and a god, so the child has dual paternity.

When the child, Theseus, comes of age, he is instructed to remove a huge boulder to inherit his kingly father’s sword and sandals, and journey to Athens to claim his rightful princely birthright. The journey is long and arduous, fraught with death and danger, and Theseus proves his heroic worth by performing six labors, defeating evil villains who wish him harm by using their own evil techniques against them.

1.)         First, Theseus defeats the brigand Periphetes, the bronze club wielder, and lame legged, like his father, Hephaestus.

2.)         Next, he kills Pityocamptes, who would tie his victims to two bowed pine trees, releasing them and tearing the victims apart.

3.)         Third, he overcomes a creature; the Crommyonian Sow

4.)         Fourth, he outwits Sciron, who would push victims off a cliff to be eaten by a giant turtle.

5.)         Fifth he faces Cercyon at the holy sight of Eleusis, who challenged passers to wrestling matches. Theseus uses untold power and technique to achieve victory; and is thus credited as the originator of the sport of wrestling.

6.)         Sixth, he overcomes Procrustes, who had two beds in his home, one too short and one too long. IF the guest was too short, Procrustes would stretch him through torture to fit, or if the guest was too tall, the villain would chop off the guest’s feet.

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[godsofhumanity]

Aegeus: do you have any skeletons in your closet? Medea: Literally or figuratively? Aegeus: i have to specify??

[sarafangirlart]

I can’t help but think of Perseus going “hey son-in-law would you mind if my granddaughters come live with me? No particular reason it’s just that uh, Andromeda here really wanted to get to know these girls right love?” Bc he knows how Kings behave when they want a son so bad he consults an oracle lol

[enjoljeacharlichele]

No but Aegeus' death is the most hilarious death in greek mythology, it's a comedy of errors.

First there's Theseus who forgets that no today is not white sails' laundry day but oh well, we'll just leave the black ones on, no harm done right?

Wrong, because today the king your father, who endured Minos' horrible request and you leaving, is watching and well, his son is dead, no other offspring, it's time to jump into this convenient nameless sea leaving Athens without a government. Goodbye to the one father in greek mythology who actually loved his son.

And it doesn't end here, no, because Theseus is back, they all cry and they all decide that the best way to honor you is to forever immortalize your silly, silly decision.

But hey, at least the sea has a name now.

[dreamconsumer]

Theseus and Aegeus. Unknown artist.

[sebeth]

Who's Who In The DC Universe #1: Adam Strange, Aegeus, Air Wave I, Air Wave II

Adam Strange by Carmine Infantino and Murphy Anderson

Adam was fleeing from South American natives when he was struck by the Zeta Beam, a “beam of energy sent from the planet Rann in hopes of communicating” with Earth

The Zeta Beam teleported Adam to Rann instead

Adam meets a scientist named Sardath and Alanna, his daughter

Adam became the Rann’s first citizen and savior and later married Alanna

Rann is a planet of contradictions: “Some of its divided city-states possesses science far in advance of Earth, while others exist in almost barbaric splendor”

Adam teleports back to Earth whenever the Zeta Beam wears off, he then has to calculate where the next Zeta Beam will strike (always south of the equator) to return to Rann

I’ve always loved Adam Strange. How can you not enjoy an archaeologist who has space adventures? I’d recommend the Adam Strange miniseries that came out shortly before Infinite Crisis (no, not the Rann-Thanagar War mini-series, the “Adam Strange” mini-series that preceded it. It was excellent!

Aegeus by Don Heck

A Greek national who was planning acts of terrorism when he met Bellerophon (yes, the one from Greek mythology). Bellerophon had become an Olympian-hater so he gave Aegeus a magical bow and arrow, six daggers of Vulcan (shouldn’t he be called Hephaestus (?), and Pegasus. Aegeus then decided to pick a fight with Wonder Woman and the Amazons. It doesn’t end well for him.

For such a long-running character, Wonder Woman’s rogue gallery does not have the depth of a Flash, a Batman, or a Spider-Man. Aegeus is D list. Has he even been seen post-Crisis?

Air-Wave I and Air Wave II by Alex Saviuk & Dick Giordano

Did you know Hal Jordan’s cousins were heroes? And not of the Green Lantern variety?

Lawrence (Larry) Jordan was a native of Earth-2. He developed a helmet and belt that allowed him to into any radio wave, project his voice through radio waves, among other abilities. He created the Air Wave persona, battled nazis, and joined the All-Star Squadron.

Larry traveled to Earth-1 under “unknown circumstances”, became a district attorney, married a woman named Helen, and has a son named Harold (Hal). No, not that Hal Jordan.

Criminals later shot and killed Larry as revenge against his crusades as a district attorney.

Hal inherited the Air Wave equipment and persona from his father.

His mother had a breakdown after the murder of his father and was confined to an institution. Hal was taken in by his cousins, Jack and Jan Jordan.

Hal received some coaching on heroics from his cousin Hal (yes, that Hal), Green Arrow, and Black Canary.

The only appearances of either Air Wave that I’ve read were when Larry or Hal made appearances in the All-Star Squadron or JSA series. They were okay.

I suppose a quick detour is needed for younger readers about the various earths that will be mentioned in the Who’s Who:

Earth-1: The earth of the Silver Age heroes to 1985/1986: the home of Barry, Hal, Katar, Shayera, etc

Earth-2: The home of the Golden Age/original versions of DC’s iconic heroes: Alan Scott, Jay Garrick, Carter Hall. Also, the home of the Justice Society, All-Star Squadron, Infinity Inc, etc. Bruce, Clark, and Diana among other will have versions of themselves on both Earth-1 and Earth-2. The difference is the Earth-2 versions can age, marry, and have children while the Earth-1 versions stayed young and single.

There were multiple other earths, this is off the top of my head so the designations may be wrong, but a few more were:4

Earth-3: The home of the Crime Syndicate (reverse world where the Justice League are evil, and the villains are the good guys)

Earth-F: Home of the Fawcett heroes

Earth-C: Home of the Charlton heroes

Earth-Q: Home of the Quality heroes

DC simply created another earth when they bought out another company and then plopped the newly acquired characters on it rather than try to insert the characters on a prior earth. Crossovers between earths were frequent. DC eventually decided the continuity was too complicated and thus the Crisis on Infinite Earths was born. I don’t know, I was nine years old when the Crisis began and I understood the continuity just fine, so how complicated could it be?

[tinysweetnight]

Fun little thing

[willow-mortem]

#classicstober day 29 ''Return''

Upon Theseus' return with black sails, Aegeus his father thought his son had died. And thus threw himself in the sea out of despair.. 🌊

#classicstober2022

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[nzhong]

雅典系列之四：爱琴海的来历

回「希腊罗马神话」 雅典的国王又传了几代，终于传到了埃勾斯（Aegeus）。 埃勾斯最近很烦恼：他虽然娶了两房太太，但一直没有生出小孩。和那时其他的希腊国王一样，他去德尔斐（Delphi）找先知求助。 熟悉希腊神话的朋友都知道，德尔斐的先知（Oracle）经常会给个神秘或者不详的预言，从而引发出一系列事件。希腊人最喜欢的情节是命运怪圈：主人公为了避免某个预言发生而做出的努力，大概率就是导致那个结果最终发生的原因！ Themis and Aegeus. Attic red-figure kylix, 440–430 BC. 比如在 俄狄浦斯 的故事里，老国王得到了预言说儿子会杀死自己，儿子俄狄浦斯（Oedipus）得到预言说他会杀父娶母。为了逃避这个命运，老国王把儿子扔在荒山野岭，俄狄浦斯舍弃王子地位误返家乡。正是这些避祸的举动，最终导致了命运的到来。 又比如在 达那厄…

[wondyvillains]

[tylermileslockett]

Theseus #2 (the Journey to Athens and the Six Labors)

king Aegeus stops over to visit king Pitheus who, understanding the prophecy, offers his own daughter, Aethra, and after getting the king drunk, the two lay together. The same night, Aethra is visited by Athena in a dream who instructs the princess to visit the oceanside to pray for blessings. Here Poseidon appears and couples with her. Thus, Aethra is impregnated by both a king and a god, so the child has dual paternity.

When the child, Theseus, comes of age, he is instructed to remove a huge boulder to inherit his kingly father’s sword and sandals, and journey to Athens to claim his rightful princely birthright. The journey is long and arduous, fraught with death and danger, and Theseus proves his heroic worth by performing six labors, defeating evil villains who wish him harm by using their own evil techniques against them.

1.)         First, Theseus defeats the brigand Periphetes, the bronze club wielder, and lame legged, like his father, Hephaestus.

2.)         Next, he kills Pityocamptes, who would tie his victims to two bowed pine trees, releasing them and tearing the victims apart.

3.)         Third, he overcomes a creature; the Crommyonian Sow

4.)         Fourth, he outwits Sciron, who would push victims off a cliff to be eaten by a giant turtle.

5.)         Fifth he faces Cercyon at the holy sight of Eleusis, who challenged passers to wrestling matches. Theseus uses untold power and technique to achieve victory; and is thus credited as the originator of the sport of wrestling.

6.)         Sixth, he overcomes Procrustes, who had two beds in his home, one too short and one too long. IF the guest was too short, Procrustes would stretch him through torture to fit, or if the guest was too tall, the villain would chop off the guest’s feet.

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[nharrison28199]

Aegeus

One of the characters of my upcoming book "The Manticore: The Head of the Gorgon". Aegeus is Dora’s fiancé as part of an arranged marriage. He comes from a family of gold merchants.

[myrrhbat]

Aegeus singing to an enthusiastic 1.5 year old:

🎶Hickery dickery dock, the mouse got hit in the cock 🎶

[flockofdoves]

ive always just thought that black sails was kind of a nothing title for a show that has so much to it (and also didnt really make sense to me bc their sails literally arent black, thats their flags??)

but yesterday i happened across a summary of some of the founding myths of athens, and in that, crete had been taking 14 young people from athens every year to get sacrificed to the minotaur. theseus and his crew set out on a journey to stop this, and his father king aegeus knew that with how strong theseus was that this was what needed to be done to put an end to this.

but still he was scared of the idea of his son dying in the process, so he asked theseus to put black sails on his ship, and change them to white sails on his way back if he was still alive so he could know before the ship reached shore.

theseus did survive, but forgot to change his sails to white. in seeing the black sails as theseus’s ship came back to shore, aegeus didn’t wait to see, and jumped off a cliff into the sea to kill himself in his grief. the aegean sea was named after him.

so like well. thinking about this in more abstract terms in the context of black sails’s themes of the power of hegemony vs the need for revolutionary optimism. the questions of how much of one's own domesticity they're willing to sacrifice in the face of the fight for a better world and the leaps of faith and hope required to still work towards that better world in the face of that and. Um.