Myrmidon
Myrmidon ( Greek Μυρμιδών ), husband of Peisidike and progenitor of the Myrmidons , is a figure in Greek mythology .
He was a son of Zeus and Eurymedusa , whom the god father made happy in the form of an ant (μύρμηξ, Myrmex ).
Since the legend about Myrmidon's son Aktor was later transferred from Thessaly to Aegina , the genealogies merged. In place of the divine act of procreation, the ant saga of the aiginetic myrmidons came in, and Aktor got the nymph Aigina as his wife. Other descendants of Myrmidon are Antiphos , Eupolemeia and Ischylla .
literature
- Karl Tümpel : Myrmidon . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.2, Leipzig 1897, Col. 3312-3314 ( digitized version ).
- Hans von Geisau : Myrmidon. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 3, Stuttgart 1969, column 1521 f.
- Ernst Christian Walz : Myrmidon . In: Real Encyclopedia of Classical Classical Antiquities in alphabetical order . Volume 5, Stuttgart 1848, p. 297.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Gemoll : Greek-German school and hand dictionary . G. Freytag / Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Munich / Vienna 1965, p. 513.
- ↑ Hiller v. Gaertringen : Actor 1. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1893ff., Col. 1216.