Aegae

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

Aegae: ārum, f. plur., = Αἰγαί.
I A city of Cilicia, now Ayas, Luc. 3, 227.—
II A small town on the western coast of Eubœa, now Limni, Stat. Th. 7, 371.

Latin > German (Georges)

Aegae (Αἰγαί) u. Aegaeae od. Aegēae od. Aegīae (Αἰγίαι u. Αἰγειαί), ārum, f. I) Stadt in der mazedon. Landschaft Emathia, Form Aegeae, Iustin. 7, 1, 10 (der es mit Edessa identifiziert): Form Aegiae, Nep. reg. 2, 1. Plin. 4, 33. – II) Stadt in Äolis, in der Nähe von Kyme, Form Aegaeae, Plin. 5, 121. – III) Stadt in Cilicien, j. Schloß Ajas Kala, Form Aegae, Lucan. 3, 227: Form Aegaeae, Plin. 5, 91: Form Aegeae, Tac. ann. 13, 8. – Dav. Aegēātēs, ae, m. (Αἰγειάτης), aus Ägä, der Ägeate, vom mazedon. Ägä, Vell. 2, 70, 4: vom äolischen, Plur. bei Tac. ann. 2, 47 (wo Akk. Aegeatas). – u. Aegēādēs, ae, m. (Αἰγειάδης), der Ägeade, vom mazedon. Ägä, Iustin. 7, 1, 10. – u. Aegēnsis, e, zu Ägä (in Mazedonien), theatrum, Auct. itin. Alex. 5.

Wikipedia EN

Aegae or Aigai (Ancient Greek: Αἰγαὶ), also Aegeae or Aigeai (Αἰγέαι), was a city in Emathia in ancient Macedonia, and the burial-place of the Macedonian kings. The commanding and picturesque site upon which the town was built was the original centre of the Macedonians, and the residence of the dynasty which sprang from the Temenid Perdiccas. The seat of government was afterwards transferred to the marshes of Pella, which lay in the maritime plain beneath the ridge through which the Lydias forces its way to the sea. But the old capital always remained the national hearth (ἑστία, Diod. Excerpt. p. 563) of the Macedonian race, and the burial-place for their kings. The body of Alexander the Great, though by the intrigues of Ptolemy I Soter, it was taken to Memphis, was to have reposed at Aegae, – the spot where his father Philip II of Macedon fell by the hand of Pausanias of Orestis.

Coinage of Aegae towards the end of the reign of Amyntas I, under Achaemenid Macedonia, circa 510-480 BC. Goat kneeling right, head reverted; pellet above and before / Quadripartite incuse square.

Its site is located near the modern town of Vergina.

Tomb of Philip II at Aegae In 1977, Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos started excavating the Great Tumulus at Aegae near modern Vergina, the capital and burial site of the kings of Macedon, and found that two of the four tombs in the tumulus were undisturbed since antiquity. Moreover, these two, and particularly Tomb II, contained fabulous treasures and objects of great quality and sophistication.

Although there was much debate for some years, as suspected at the time of the discovery Tomb II has been shown to be that of Philip II as indicated by many features, including the greaves, one of which was shaped consistently to fit a leg with a misaligned tibia (Philip II was recorded as having broken his tibia). Also, the remains of the skull show damage to the right eye caused by the penetration of an object (historically recorded to be an arrow).

A study of the bones published in 2015 indicates that Philip was buried in Tomb I, not Tomb II. On the basis of age, knee ankylosis and a hole matching the penetrating wound and lameness suffered by Philip, the authors of the study identified the remains of Tomb I in Vergina as those of Philip II. Tomb II instead was identified in the study as that of King Arrhidaeus and his wife Eurydice II. However this latter theory had previously been shown to be false.

More recent research gives further evidence that Tomb II contains the remains of Philip II.

Wikipedia LA

Aegae (Graece Αἰγαί) sunt parvum oppidum in Graecia septentrionali in unitate regionali Emathiae situm. Quae nunc Bergina vocantur et litteris Graecis Βεργίνα scribuntur. Fama huius oppidi latissime disseminata est anno 1977, cum archaeologus Manoles Andronicus ibi sepulcra effodisset, quorum maximum exstat illud Macedonum regis Philippi II, Alexandri Magni patris. Quibus inventis oppidum hodiernum idem habetur ac Aegae, priscum illud Macedoniae caput.