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Aeacus and himself
In Book XVII of The Iliad, Apollo disguises himself as Mentes to encourage Hector to fight Menelaus, (" Hector, now you're going after something you'll not catch, chasing the horses of warrior Achilles, descendant of Aeacus.

Aeacus and by
Once crossed, the soul would be judged by Aeacus, Rhadamanthus and King Minos.
Ovid, on the other hand, supposes that the island was not uninhabited at the time of the birth of Aeacus, and states that, in the reign of Aeacus, Hera, jealous of Aegina, ravaged the island bearing the name of the latter by sending a plague or a fearful dragon into it, by which nearly all its inhabitants were carried off, and that Zeus restored the population by changing the ants into men.
Aeacus and Telamon by Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune.
He was such a favourite with the latter, that, when Greece was visited by a drought in consequence of a murder which had been committed, the oracle of Delphi declared that the calamity would not cease unless Aeacus prayed to the gods that it might.
When the work was completed, three dragons rushed against the wall, and while the two of them which attacked those parts of the wall built by the gods fell down dead, the third forced its way into the city through the part built by Aeacus.
Aeacus was also believed by the Aeginetans to have surrounded their island with high cliffs to protect it against pirates.
Several other incidents connected with the story of Aeacus are mentioned by Ovid.
By Endeïs Aeacus had two sons, Telamon and Peleus ( father of Achilles ), and by Psamathe a son, Phocus, whom he preferred to the two others, both of whom contrived to kill Phocus during a contest, and then fled from their native island.
Aeacus laments Heracles's theft of Cerberus and sentences Dionysus to Acheron and torment by hounds of Cocytus, Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons.
The Athenians were preparing to make reprisals, in spite of the advice of the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus, when their projects were interrupted by the Spartan intrigues for the restoration of Hippias.
She bore at least two children: Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by Zeus.
This was the ' good ' king Minos, and he was held in such esteem by the Olympian gods that, after he died, he was made one of the three ' Judges of the Dead ', alongside his brother Rhadamanthys and half-brother Aeacus.
An etiological myth of their origins, expanding upon their etymology — the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as " ant-people ", from μυρμηδών ( murmedon ) " ant's nest " and that from μύρμηξ ( murmex ) " ant " — was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, King Aeacus of Aegina, father of Peleus, pleaded with Zeus to populate his country after a terrible plague.
His mother, the Nereid goddess of sand beaches, transformed herself into a seal when she was ambushed by Aeacus, and was raped as a seal ; conceived in the rape, Phocus ' name means " seal ".
The brothers hid the corpse in a thicket, but Aeacus discovered the body and punished Peleus and Telamon by exiling them from Aegina.
The goddess of sand beaches, Psamathe was the wife of Proteus and the mother of Phocus by Aeacus.

Aeacus and temple
Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus, was the tutelary hero of the island of Salamis, where he had a temple and an image, and where a festival called Aianteia was celebrated in his honour.

Aeacus and Zeus
Ajax is the son of Telamon, who was the son of Aeacus and grandson of Zeus, and his first wife Periboea.
According to some accounts Aeacus was a son of Zeus and Europa.
Some traditions related that at the time when Aeacus was born, Aegina was not yet inhabited, and that Zeus changed the ants () of the island into men ( Myrmidons ) over whom Aeacus ruled, or that he made men grow up out of the earth.
Aegina was a daughter of Asopus and mother of Aeacus by Zeus.
Aegina bore at least two children: Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by Zeus, both of whom became kings.
When the city of Aegina was depopulated by a plague sent by Hera in jealous reprisal for Zeus's love of Aegina, the king Aeacus prayed to Zeus for the ants that were currently infesting an oak tree to morph into humans to repopulate his kingdom.
He claimed his lineage from the Athenian King Theseus ; the Athenian Monarch named Cecrops ; King Aeacus and the God Zeus.
Eustahius summarizing the geneaologies, relates: Emathion son of Zeus and Electra preceding the birth of Makedon son of Aeacus, ( instead of Lycaon ).

Aeacus and on
The identification of Ajax with the family of Aeacus was chiefly a matter which concerned the Athenians, after Salamis had come into their possession, on which occasion Solon is said to have inserted a line in the Iliad ( 2. 557 – 558 ), for the purpose of supporting the Athenian claim to the island.
Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born on and ruled the island.
According to later legends ( c. 400 BC ), on account of his inflexible integrity he was made one of the judges of the dead in the lower world, together with Aeacus and Minos.
A scholiast on the Iliad distinguishes between two possible eponyms: Phocus the son of Aeacus and Psamathe, and Phocus the son of Poseidon and Pronoe.
Still angry over Heracles ' theft of Cerberus, Aeacus threatens to unleash several monsters on him in revenge.

Aeacus and Aeginetans
Aeacus had sanctuaries both at Athens and in Aegina, and the Aeginetans regarded him as the tutelary deity of their island.

Aeacus and their
A legend preserved in Pindar relates that Apollo and Poseidon took Aeacus as their assistant in building the walls of Troy.

Aeacus and island
Aeacus ( also spelled Eacus, ) was a mythological king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.
Peleus was the son of Aeacus, king of the island of Aegina, and Endeïs, the oread of Mount Pelion in Thessaly ; he was the father of Achilles.
Aegina eventually gave birth to her son Aeacus, who became king of the island.

Aeacus and called
Aeacus while he reigned in Aegina was renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety, and was frequently called upon to settle disputes not only among men, but even among the gods themselves.

Aeacus and which
Though the tomb of Aeacus remained in a shrine enclosure in the most conspicuous part of the port city, a quadrangular enclosure of white marble sculpted with bas-reliefs, in the form in which Pausanias saw it, with the tumulus of Phocus nearby, there was no temenos of Peleus at Aegina.
This chronology is consistent with the archaeology of Troy, which shows that Troy VI was destroyed by an earthquake, around 1300 BCE, after over 300 years of occupation, and then rebuilt, and, according to the Greek legend, this rebuilding was completed by Poseidon, Apollo and Aeacus.

Aeacus and was
Aeacus was believed in later times to be buried under the altar in this sacred enclosure.
Here, Aegina gave birth to Aeacus, who would later become king of Oenone ; thenceforth, the island's name was Aegina.

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