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AEACUS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 244 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AEACUS , in Greek legend, ancestor of the Aeacidae, was the son of Zeus and Aegina, daughter of the river-god Asopus. His
mother
  was carried off .by Zeus to the
island
  of
Oenone
 , which was afterwards called by her name. The
island
  having been depopulated by a pestilence, Zeus changed the ants upon it into human beings (Ovid, Met. vii. 520), who were called Myrmidones (p.bpgxes =,ants). Aeacus ruled over his people with such justice and impartiality that after his death he was made judge of the lower world together with
Minos
  and
Rhadamanthus
 . By his wife Endeis he was the father of Telamon and Peleus. His successful
prayer
  to Zeus for rain at a time of drought (Isocrates,
Evagoras
 , 14) was commemorated by a temple at Aegina (Pausanias ii. 29). He himself erected a temple to Zeus Panhellenios and helped Poseidon and Apollo to build the walls of Troy.
See
Hutchinson
 , Aeacus, 1901.


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