Show naming the aegean sen sea tho aegean sea BOB la Is remarkable anone among tho the seas ot of tho the world for or tho the obscurity in which the origin of its namo name la involved eyen even tho the ancients could not give a cert certain atri answer r on the point A popular view was that it was named after argoue the father of theseus Thea eim who throw threw himself into it when hla his son forgot to hoist tho the white nail ball upon his return from croto crete ad a signal that ho had slain tha minotaur but others derived the nane name from a queen of the amazons who alse perished in this sea others from tho fown own of argao in Negro pont and a fourth theory traced ll it to the word alges goats which tho wands ot of the archipelago vo fancifully thought to resemble re |