High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In Greek mythology, Aetes was a son of the king-god Helios and the nymph Perseis (a daughter of Oceanus), brother of Circe and Pasiphae, and father of Medea, Chalciope and Apsyrtus. King of Colchis (ancient kingdom of Georgia). According to others, he was brother of Perses, a king of Tauris, husband of his niece Hecate, and father of Circe, Medea and Aegialeus. Pausanias states that, according to the poet Eumelos, Aetes was the son of Helios (from northern Peloponnesus) and brother of Aloeus. Helios divided the land he ruled, and he gave Aloeus the part in Asopia (see Asopus) and Aetes the part of Ephyra (Corinthos). Later, Aetes gave his kingdom to Bounos, a son of Hermes and Alkidameia, and went to Colchis, a country in western Caucasus. When Bounos died, Epopeus, a son of Aloeus who ruled in Asopia, became king of Ephyra too. Aetes built a new colony in Colchis, near the mouth of the large river Phasis, and called it Aea. Phrixus, son of Athamus and Nephele, along with his twin Helle, were hated by their stepmother, Ino.