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Aeacus was the son of Zeus and Aegina, daughter of the river-god Asopus. Thus in his birthright he linked the Olympians with the immemorial chthonic water spirits of the land. His mother was carried off by Zeus to the island of Oenone, which was afterwards called by her name.
When Aeacus' kingdom had a horrific plague, he prayed to Zeus for help. The king of the gods changed the local ants into people ( Ovid, Metamorphoses vii. 520), who were called Myrmidones. Aeacus was the ancestor of the Aeacidae .
By his wife Endeis he was the father of Telamon and PeleusIn Greek mythology, Peleus ( Greek: ) was the son of Aeacus, King of Aegina. Peleus and Telamon, his brother, killed their half-brother, Phocus and fled Aegina to escape punishment. In Phthia, Peleus was purified by Eurytion and married Antigone, Eurytion. By PsamatheIn Greek mythology, there were two people named Psamathe . Psamathe was a Nereid, the lover of Aeacus and mother of Phocus. Ovid XI, 398 #Daughter of Crotopus, the King of Argos and mother of Linus by Apollo. She feared her father and gave the infant Linu, he fathered PhocusIn Greek mythology, two different people bore the name Phocus . A son of Aeacus and Psamathe, this Phocus was killed by his half-brothers, Telamon and Peleus. He had one son: Panopeus. A son of Poseidon, this Phocus founded the city of Phocis, which was n.
His successful prayer to Zeus for rain at a time of drought (Isocrates, Evagoras, 14) was commemorated by a temple at Aegina ( PausaniasPausanias was Greek traveller and geographer of the 2nd century A. who lived in the times of Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. He is famous for his Description of Greece a lengthy work that describes ancient Greece from firsthand observations, ii. 29). He himself erected a temple to Zeus and helped PoseidonThis article is about the Greek god. See also: Poseidon missile; and Poseidon drowning detection system''. Andrea Doria as Neptune by Agnolo Bronzino: a potent allegory of Genoa's hegemony in the Tyrrhenian Sea In Greek Mythology, Poseidon was the god of and Apollo to build the walls of TroyThis article is about the city of Troy / Ilion as described in the works of Homer, and the location of an ancient city associated with it. For other uses see Troy (disambiguation) and Ilion (disambiguation). Troy ( Greek Τροα Troia (.
No other of the archaic priest-kings who ruled Aegina are remembered by the mythographers, for the grandsons of Aeacus, Phocus' sons Panopeus and Crisus left Aegina to settle in Phocis, a region bordering the Gulf of Corinth west of Boeotia.
Alexander the Great traced his ancestry (through his mother) to Aeacus.