He then mentions that Eupolis eventually died and was buried in Aegina.

In 491 BC Aegina was one of the states which gave the symbols of submission ( earth and water ) to Achaemenid Persia.

Here, Aegina gave birth to Aeacus, who would later become king of Oenone ; thenceforth, the island's name was Aegina.

In 501 BC, Aegina was one of the states which gave the symbols of submission ( earth and water ) to Persia.

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.

He was born on the island of Oenone or Oenopia, to which Aegina had been carried by Zeus to secure her from the anger of her parents, and whence this island was afterwards called Aegina.

By the terms of the Thirty Years ' Peace ( 445 BC ) Athens covenanted to restore to Aegina her autonomy, but the clause remained a dead letter.

Aegina obtained money for her defences by the unwilling sacrifice of her cherished relic, the head of St. George, which had been carried there from Livadia by the Catalans.

When Zeus abducted Aegina, he took her to Oenone, an island close to Attica.

Bacchylides then sings the praises of Pytheas ' home, the island Aegina, and how " her fame excites a dancer ’ s praise.

With the coming of Athenian control over Aegina, a temple to her also existed on the outskirts of Athens, at the Aspropyrgos.

Aegina () was a figure of Greek mythology, the nymph of the island that bears her name, Aegina, lying in the Saronic Gulf between Attica and the Peloponnesos.

It was often said that Zeus took the form of an eagle and abducted Aegina, taking her to an island near Attica, then called Oenone ; henceforth known by her name.

Rather than lie with her, Zeus marries her off to the mortal Peleus, King of Aegina.

Rather than lie with her, Zeus marries her off to the mortal Peleus, King of Aegina.

He was son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus.

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.

In Greek mythology, Telamon ( in Ancient Greek, Τελαμών ), son of the king Aeacus of Aegina, and Endeis and brother of Peleus, accompanied Jason as one of his Argonauts, and was present at the hunt for the Calydonian Boar.

Phocus of Aegina was the son of Aeacus and Psamathe.

Menoetius was a son of Actor, King of Opus in Locris by Aegina.

# Father of Patroclus and Myrto ( by either Sthenele, Periopis or Polymele ), son of Actor and Aegina.

His son was Patroclus, Achilles ' cousin through their paternal family connection to Aegina, and his intimate companion.

The son made immortal, Aeacus, was the king of Aegina, and was known to have contributed help to Poseidon and Apollo in building the walls of Troy.

Through him Aegina was the great-grandmother of Achilles, who was son of Peleus, son of Aeacus.

Aeacus ( also spelled Eacus, ) was a mythological king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.

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.

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

Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born on and ruled the island.

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.

* Aeacus, the first king of Aegina according to mythology

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.

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.

For this Aeacus exiled them both from Aegina.

The brothers hid the corpse in a thicket, but Aeacus discovered the body and punished Peleus and Telamon by exiling them from Aegina.

The tomb of Phocus was shown at Aegina beside the shrine of Aeacus.

Aegina was a daughter of Asopus and mother of Aeacus by Zeus.

Sciron disputed this, but agreed to accept arbitration by Aeacus, king of Aegina, who decided that Nisus should be king and Sciron the military leader.

Aegina bore at least two children: Menoetius by Actor, and Aeacus by Zeus, both of whom became kings.

In 1533, three rectors of Aegina were punished for their acts of injustice and we have a graphic account of the reception given by the Aeginetans to the captain of Nauplia, who came to hold an enquiry into the administration of these delinquents.

* The Congress at the Isthmus of Corinth, under the presidency of Sparta, brings together a number of the Greek city states, who agree to the end of the war between Athens and Aegina.

* King Sisyphus was sent to Tartarus for killing guests and travelers to his castle in violation to his hospitality, seducing his niece, and reporting one of Zeus ' sexual conquests by telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina ( who had been taken away by Zeus ).

" Bacchylides continues this dancer allusion in praise of Aegina, and ends it by listing some famous men who were born on the island, namely Peleus and Telamon.

Attalus I of Pergamum, who is with his fleet at Aegina, receives an embassy from Athens asking him to come to the city for consultations.

King Sisyphus also betrayed one of Zeus's secrets by telling the river god Asopus of the whereabouts of his daughter Aegina ( an Asopides who was taken away by Zeus ) in return for causing a spring to flow on the Corinthian Acropolis.

We find first in Pindar's odes ( Nem 8. 6 – 12 ; Is 8. 17 – 23 ; Paian 6. 134 – 40 ) the sisters, Aegina and Thebe, here the youngest daughters of Boeotian Asopus by Metope who came from Stymphalia in Arcadia.

Corinna, Pindar's contemporary, in a damaged fragment, mentions nine daughters of Boeotian Asopus: Aegina, Thebe, and Plataea abducted by Zeus ; Corcyra, Salamis, and Euboea abducted by Poseidon ; Sinope and Thespia ( who has been dealt with above ) abducted by Apollo ; and Tanagra abducted by Hermes.

Aphaea ( Greek:, Aphaía, " without light ") was a Greek goddess who was worshipped almost exclusively at a single sanctuary on the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf.

The groundswell of the Philhellenic movement was result of two generations of intrepid artists and amateur treasure-seekers, from Stuart and Revett, who published their measured drawings as The Antiquities of Athens and culminating with the removal of sculptures from Aegina and the Parthenon ( the Elgin marbles ), works that ravished the British Philhellenes, many of whom, however, deplored their removal.

Aegina sends word to Crassus, who sends his army in pursuit.

His date may safely be put in the 6th century, for he mentions Aëtius Amidenus, who probably did not write until the end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century, and he is himself quoted by Paul of Aegina, who is supposed to have lived in the 7th century ; besides which, he is mentioned as a contemporary of Agathias, who set about writing his History in the beginning of the reign of Justin II, about 565.