- Information
- daughter of Pittheus, mother of Theseus
- LIMC headword
- Aithra I
- Daughter of
- 👤 Pittheus
- Mother of
- 👤 Theseus
- Wife of
- 👤 Aigeus (Athenian)
- Has children with
- 👤 Aigeus (Athenian) 👤 Poseidon
- Born at
- 🌍 Troizen (Argolid)
- Enslaved to
- 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Helen 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan)
- Creates
- 🏛️ the Temple of Athena Apaturia (Argolid)
- Related Entities
- 👤 Acamas (Athenian) 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Aigeus (Athenian) 👤 Alexander (Trojan) 👤 Antenor (Trojan) 👤 Apollo 👤 Athena 👤 Bellerophon 👤 Castor (Spartan) 👤 Clytios (Trojan) 👤 Demeter 👤 Demophon (Athenian) 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 👤 Poseidon 👤 Hector (Trojan) 👤 Hicetaon 👤 Lampos (Trojan) 🌍 Corinth (Argolid) 🌍 Eleusis (Attica) 🌍 Athens (Attica) 👤 Theseus 👤 Pegasos (horse) 👤 Peirithous (Lapith) 👤 Helen 👤 Persephone 👤 Pittheus 👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) 👤 Priam 👥 the Nereids 👤 Odysseus 🏺 the Palladion (statue) 🏺 the Sword of Aigeus 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Troy (Troad) 🌍 the Beach of Troy 🌍 the Citadel of Troy 🏛️ the Temple of Athena at Troy 👤 Adrastos (Argive I) 🏛️ the Scaian Gates (Troy) 🌍 Troizen (Argolid) 👥 the Seven against Thebes 🌍 Aphidnai (Attica) 🏺 the Sandals of Aigeus 🏛️ the Rock of Theseus near Troizen 👤 Eurybates (Ithacan) 👤 Eurybates (Mycenaean) 👤 Clymene (Trojan) 👤 Oucalegon 👤 Panthoos 👤 Thymoites (Trojan I) 👤 Mounitos (Trojan) 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi 🌍 Sacred Island (Argolid) 🌍 Sphairia (alt. Sacred Island) 🏛️ the House of Aigeus (Athens) 👤 Aphidnos (eponym) 🏛️ the Temple of Demeter at Eleusis 🏛️ the Temple of Athena Apaturia (Argolid)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 1.23 📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 5.22 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.10.7 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.15.7 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.16.1 📖 Lycophron, Alexandra 494-534 📖 Pausanias 2.33.1 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 3.4 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 4.1 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 7.1 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 31.3 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 34.1 📖 Euripides, Suppliant Women 1-41 📖 Homer, Iliad 3.139-3.170 📖 Pausanias 1.41.3-1.41.6 📖 Pausanias 2.30.8-2.30.9 📖 Pausanias 2.31.8-2.31.9 📖 Pausanias 5.19.1-5.19.6 📖 Pausanias 10.25.4-10.25.8 📖 Pausanias 10.25.7-10.25.8 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 3.3-3.5 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 3.1-3.3 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 32.4-33.1 📖 Plutarch, Theseus 34.1-34.2 📖 Euripides, Suppliant Women 359-364 📖 Little Iliad fr. 17 West 📖 Sack of Troy fr. 6 West 📖 Sack of Troy Argumentum 4 West 📖 Bacchylides, Dithyrambs 17 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 3.144 📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 11.741 📖 Callimachus, Hecale fr. 9-11 Hollis 📖 Callimachus, Hecale fr. 12 Hollis 📖 Callimachus, Hecale fr. 78 Hollis
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Epitome Apollodoros, Library Homer, Iliad Lycophron, Alexandra Little Iliad Plutarch, Theseus Pausanias Euripides, Suppliant Women Sack of Troy Bacchylides, Dithyrambs D-Scholia, Iliad Callimachus, Hecale
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Pindar fr. 258 Snell-Maehler 📖 Istros BNJ 334 fr. 7 📖 Homer, Iliad 3.139-3.170 📖 Little Iliad fr. 17 West 📖 Hellanicos fr. 168 Fowler 📖 Alcman fr. 21 PMG 📖 Crates of Mallos fr. 14 Broggiato
- Depictions
- 🎨 Attic Red-Figure Calyx Krater attributed to the Cleophrades Painter (Beazley 201700; LIMC Aithra I 1) 🎨 Wall Paintings from Private Dwelling I 2, 6, Pompeii (MANN 109751; PALP r1-i2-p6-space-m)
- Reported depictions
- 🎨 Wooden Chest of Cypselos (LIMC Achilleus 205) 🎨 Wall Painting of the Fall of Troy in the Lesche of the Cnidians by Polygnotos, Delphi (LIMC Ilioupersis 25)