AUGEAS, or AUGEIAS
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V02,
Page 900
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
AUGEAS, or AUGEIAS
, in Greek legend, a son of Helios, the sun- god, and See also: - KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
of the Epeians in Elis
.
He possessed an immense wealth of herds, including twelve bulls sacred to Helios, and See also: - WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
as swans
.
Eurystheus imposed upon Heracles the task of clearing out all his stalls unaided in one day
.
This he did by turning the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through them
.
Augeas had promised him a tenth of the herd, but refused this, alleging that Heracles had acted only in the service of Eurystheus
.
Heracles thereupon sent an army against him, and, though at first defeated, finally slew Augeas and his sons
.
Apollodorus ii
.
5, 7; Pindar, Olympia, xi, 24; Diodorus iv
.
13; Theocritus, Idyll 25
.
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