# Ardeas

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ardeas
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ardeas.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeas
> Source revision: 1282593431
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|Son of Odysseus in Greek mythology}}
According to the Greek historian [Xenagoras](/source/Xenagoras_(historian)), '''Ardeas''' or '''Ardias''' or '''Ardeias''' ({{langx|grc| Ἀρδείας}}) was a son of [Odysseus](/source/Odysseus) and [Circe](/source/Circe). He was said to have founded [Ardea](/source/Ardea%2C_Lazio), a city in [Latium](/source/Latium).<ref>Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities, [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Dionysius_of_Halicarnassus/1D*.html 1.72.5], trans. Ernest Cary</ref><ref>{{cite DGRBM|title=Ardeas|url=http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DA%3Aentry+group%3D37%3Aentry%3Dardeas-bio-1}}</ref>

==Notes==
{{Reflist}}

Category:Children of Odysseus
Category:Children of Circe
Category:Mythological city founders

{{Greek-myth-stub}}

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ardeas](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeas) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardeas?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.