Nisos

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Nisos
For other meanings of Nisos, see Nisus. In Greek mythology, Nisos (Nisus) was the King of Megara, and one of the four sons of Pandion II, King of Athens. He was married to Abrota, and when she died, Nisos commanded that the Megarian women wear clothes like she had. His daughter Eurynome, with Poseidon, had the famous son Bellerophon.. Nisos's other daughter Scylla was responsible for his own death. Metion, the uncle of Nisos, had seized the throne from Pandion II. However, upon their father's death, Nisos and his brothers (AegeasPallas, and Lykos) returned to Athens and took back control. They drove out the sons of Metion, put Aegeus on the throne, and divided the government in four. Aegeas became king of Athens, and Nisos the King of Megara.
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Nisus
[Greek heroic] The king of Megara and founder of Megara's harbor Nisaea. When one day Minos besieged Megara, Nisus' daughter Scylla fell in love with their enemy. She cut off the golden hair on her father's head, knowing fully well that his life and the prosperity of the state was connected to his wondrous hair. Megara fell through her treachery and Nisus died, but was turned into a sparrowhawk. Scylla herself was also turned into a bird of prey. (Ovid VIII, 35). The son of Hyrtacus, companion of Aeneas. He and his friend Euryalus (2) died during a nightly raid on the camp of the Rutulians, the enemies of Aeneas in Latium. 


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