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Headword: Aigaion pelagos
Adler number: alphaiota,23
Translated headword: Aegean sea
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Thus called from a story. Theseus,[1] the son of Aegeus the king of Attica, ruled the Cretans and pursued the Minotaur into the area of the labyrinth and killed him when he was hidden in a cavern. He took to wife the woman Ariadne,[2] who had been born to Minos of Pasiphae, and thus he ruled Crete. Then he asked to go back to his father Aegeus and to announce his victory over the Minotaur. So as he was sailing to the land of Attica, one of the sea-faring merchants got a head start and lied to his father saying to him that the Cretans transgressed against Theseus (for they are under suspicion of being liars) and betrayed him to Minos to be a sacrifice. Aegeus believed him and with contempt hurled himself from the cliff into the sea and drowned. And so because of this even today the sea is called the Aegean. So Theseus came and found him dead. Despising the kingdom of Crete and his own wife Ariadne, he became king in Attica in place of his father.
From this [comes] also [the name] Aegean gulf.[3]
"So [the] Aegean sea [is] the most fearful."[4] But *Ai)/gaion is the more Attic [accentuation].[5]
Greek Original:
Aigaion pelagos: houtô kaloumenon apo historias. Thêseus ho Aigeôs huios, basileôs tês Attikês, basileuei Krêtôn kai diôkei ton Minôtauron eis tên laburinthôn chôran kai kruptomenon auton en spêlaiôi aneile kai lambanei tên Ariadnên gunaika, tên apo tou Minôos techtheisan têi Pasiphaêi, kai houtô kratei tês Krêtês. eita êitêsen apelthein pros ton heautou patera ton Aigea kai tên heautou nikên tên kata tou Minôtaurou apangeilai. hôs oun eplei epi tên Attikên chôran, prolabôn tis tôn dia thalassês emporeuomenôn epseusato ton toutou patera, eirêkôs autôi, hoti parebêsan hoi Krêtes ton Thêsea [echousi gar kai pseudomenôn hupolêpseis] kai prodedôkasi tôi Minôï touton eis thusian. pisteusas de ho Aigeus kai katoligôrêsas erripsen heauton apo tês akrôreias eis tên thalassan kai apepnigê. dioper ekeino to pelagos mechri tês sêmeron Aigaion eklêthê. elthôn oun ho Thêseus heuren auton teleutêsanta kai kataphronêsas tês basileias tês Krêtês kai tês heautou gunaikos Ariadnês ebasileusen anti tou patros en têi Attikêi. ex autou de kai Aigaios kolpos. Aigaion oun pelagos to phoberôtaton. Attikôteron de to Aigaion.
Notes:
OCD(4) p.16, under 'Aegean Sea' and 'Aegeus'.
[1] See generally theta 364.
[2] alpha 3865.
[3] alphaiota 24.
[4] Artemidorus 2.12; again at alphaiota 28.
[5] Instead of *Ai)gai=on (Vendryes' Law).
Keywords: aetiology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; geography; mythology; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 July 2000@09:15:51.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Altered translation slightly; added cross-reference and keyword.) on 16 October 2000@01:35:37.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; added bibliography; cosmetics) on 16 August 2001@07:04:33.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 10 May 2012@08:04:14.
Catharine Roth (augmented note 5) on 11 May 2012@00:30:15.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 1 August 2014@04:26:07.
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