Aiakides
As Aeacides of Epirus ( ancient Greek Αἰακίδης , Latinized Aeacides , plural Aiakideis ) is in the Greek mythology of a descendant aiginischen king Aeacus called.
In Homer , the name Aiakides is only found in relation to Aiakos' son Peleus and his son Achilles ; for his great-grandson Neoptolemus , son of Achilles, the name is documented in Pausanias and Virgil . The grammarian Lysimachus names a son of Neoptolemus and Andromache Aiakides .
Aiakos' second son Telamon is called an Aiakide by Apollonios of Rhodes and Quintus of Smyrna , and his son Aias by Quintus of Smyrna and Strabo . For Phokos , the third son of Aiakos and half-brother of Peleus and Telamon, the name Aeacides is only recorded in Ovid .
Several ancient rulers derived their lineage from the Aiakideis, such as the Macedonian king Perseus or the Epirotic king Pyrrhus , whose lineage is still referred to as the Aiakids .
literature
- Emil Wörner : Aiakides . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 114 ( digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 16:15 .
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 9:191; 11, 805.
- ^ Pausanias 1, 13, 9.
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 1:99.
- ↑ Lysimachus in the Scholion to Euripides Andromache 24.
- ↑ Apollonios of Rhodes 1, 1330.
- ^ Quintus of Smyrna 4: 450.
- ^ Quintus of Smyrna 3:244.
- ↑ Strabon 9, 394.
- ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 7, 668.
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid 6, 839.
- ↑ Silius Italicus 1, 627.
- ^ Pausanias 1, 13, 3.
- ^ Quintus Ennius in Marcus Tullius Cicero , de divinatione 2, 56, 116.