Aegeus

The actor puts a deliciously camp spin on the Athenian king, Aegeus, in marked contrast to Jason’s knife-wielding machismo.

King Aegeus had done what no host should do, he had sent his guest on an expedition full of peril—to kill a dangerous bull.

He told his father, however, and promised him that if he succeeded, he would have the black sail which the ship with its cargo of misery always carried changed to a white one, so that Aegeus could know long before it came to land that his son was safe.

The black sail was seen by his father, King Aegeus, from the Acropolis, where for days he had watched the sea with straining eyes.

He was the son of the Athenian King, Aegeus.