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AEACUS , in See also:

Greek See also:legend, ancestor of the Aeacidae, was the son of See also:Zeus and See also:Aegina, daughter of the See also:river-See also:god Asopus. His See also:mother was carried off .by Zeus to the See also:island of See also: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 (See also:Ovid, Met. vii. 520), who were called See also:Myrmidones (p.bpµgxes =,ants). Aeacus ruled over his See also:people with such See also:justice and impartiality that after his See also:death he was made See also:judge of the See also:lower See also:world together with See also:Minos and See also:Rhadamanthus. By his wife Endeis he was the See also:father of Telamon and See also:Peleus. His successful See also:prayer to Zeus for See also:rain at a See also:time of drought (Isocrates, See also:Evagoras, 14) was commemorated by a See also:temple at Aegina (See also:Pausanias ii. 29). He himself erected a temple to Zeus Panhellenios and helped See also:Poseidon and See also:Apollo to build the walls of See also:Troy. See See also:Hutchinson, Aeacus, 1901.

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