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16th century woodcut depicting Aeneas's ambush of Androgeos.

Androgeos or Androgeus (Template:Lang-el, Template:Lang-la) was the name of two individuals in Greek and Roman mythology.

In Greek mythology, Androgeos was the father of Sthenelus and a son of Minos and Pasiphaë. Aegeus, King of Athens, killed Androgeos because he won every prize during a feast. As punishment, the Athenians had to send several youths every nine years to be devoured by the Minotaur. This continued until the Minotaur was killed by Theseus.

In Virgil's Aeneid, Androgeos was a Greek soldier, who during the sack of Troy in the middle of the night mistook Aeneas and his group of Trojan defenders for a Greek raiding party, paying for this mistake with his life. Afterwards, Aeneas's companion Coroebus dressed in Androgeos' armor in order to fool more Greek soldiers to their demise.[1]

Sources[]

  1. Vergil Aeneid 2.370-393

See also[]

  • List of Trojan asteroids (Greek camp)

External links[]

  • Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Androgeus"

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