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MYRMIDONES , in Greek legend, an Achaean race, in Homeric times inhabiting Phthiotis in Thessaly. According to the ancient tradition, their original
home was Aegina, whence they crossed over to Thessaly with Peleus, but the converse view is now more generally accepted. Their name is derived from a supposedancestor, son of Zeus and Eurymedusa, who was wooed by the god in the form of an ant (Gr. /lbw? ); or from the repeopling of Aegina (when all its inhabitants had died of the plague) with ants changed into men by Zeus at the prayer of Aeacus
island
See Strabo viii. 375, ix. 433; Homer , Iliad, ii. 681; schol. on Pindar
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