Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Adscriptīvi, Aeăcus

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Aeăcus

（Αἴακος). Son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus, born in the island of Aegina, which derived its name from his mother. (See Aegina.) Some traditions relate that at the birth of Aeacus, Aegina was not yet inhabited, and that Zeus changed the ants of the island into men (Myrmidones), over whom Aeacus ruled. Aeacus was renowned in all Greece for his justice and piety, and after his death became one of the three judges in Hades, the others being Minosand Rhadamanthus. See Hades.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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