Aegaeon (mythology)

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In Greek mythology, Aegaeon (Ancient Greek: Αἰγαίων, romanized: Aigaíōn, lit. 'goatish", "stormy", "Aegean') may refer to the following figures:

• Aegaeon, also called Briareus, one of the Hecatoncheires.^[1]
• Aegaeon, an Arcadian prince as one of the 50 sons of the impious King Lycaon either by the naiad Cyllene,^[2] Nonacris^[3] or by unknown woman. He and his brothers were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged Zeus threw the meal over the table. Aegaeon was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.^[4]