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Aigeus

The Aigeus is a tragedy by the 5th century BCE Athenian playwright Sophocles.

Content

The events of the plot are as yet largely unknown. Aegeus, the eponymous hero (referring to the legendary king of Athens, who is also the hero Theseus' father) ^[1] may have taken the title role in the play ^[2]. The extant lines refer to Theseus' defeat of the Bull of Marathon, to how Aegeus' father Pandion divide his kingdom between his sons, and to Theseus' journey from Trozen to Athens (Lloyd-Jones p. 19). More recently Jebb has stated that the plot in fact may not be as unintelligible as had been previously thought, and that these fragments most likely cover the beginning the hero's story, wherein Theseus travels from Trozen with the purpose of finding his father Aegeus, and is in many respects rather similar to Euripides' Aegeus ^[3].

Date

Unfortunately, no date more precise than the 5th century BC can as yet be reliably ascribed to the writing or production of the play.

Extant Sources

There are a number of sources for the play listed by Jebb and Lloyd-Jones; these include, among others: Scholia MVBEQ on

References

• Jebb, Richard C. et al. (2010) The Fragments of Sophocles, Vol. 1 Cambridge University Press
  ISBN 978-1-108-00986-7
• Lloyd-Jones, Hugh (1996) Sophocles Fragments, Vol. 3 Loeb Classical library
  ISBN 978-0-674-99532-1
• Roberts, John (2005) The Oxford Dictionary of the Classical World
  ISBN 0-19-280145-7