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Aeëtes

[ ee-ee-teez ]

noun

, Classical Mythology.
  1. a king of Colchis, father of Medea and custodian of the Golden Fleece.


Aeëtes

/ iːˈiːtiːz /

noun

  1. Greek myth a king of Colchis, father of Medea and keeper of the Golden Fleece
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

Others will recall that Circe — Medea’s aunt, the sister of her father, Aeetes — cleansed Medea and Jason of their crimes, as they fled Colchis with the Golden Fleece and murdered Medea’s brother.

Her family members, who treat her with cruelty or indifference, become infamous in their own right: Her sister Pasiphae marries King Minos and gives birth to the Minotaur, a bullheaded, man-eating monster; while her brother Aeetes grows up to rule Colchis, the land of the Golden Fleece, and fathers Medea, who later murders her children.

After some sweet talk, Hera persuades the goddess of love to bribe her son Eros — a spoiled brat who almost never listens to Mom — into making Aeëtes’s daughter Medea grow madly infatuated with Jason.

Still, Jason and company eventually reach Colchis, ruled by King Aeëtes.

Here they found and took on board the four sons of Phrixus who, after their father’s death, had been sent by Aeetes, king of Colchis, to fetch the treasures of Orchomenus, but had been driven by a storm upon the island.

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