Aeacus
Family: Phthia · Role: father of Peleus and Telamon · First appears: Apollodorus, Library 1.8
🌐 Also appears in: The Iliad (as Aeacus) · The Metamorphoses of Ovid (as Æacus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Aeacus)
Aeacus, of Phthia, was begotten by Zeus and Aegina. He married Endeis, daughter of Sciron, and had two sons, Peleus and Telamon; afterwards he cohabited with Psamathe, daughter of Nereus, who had tried to avoid his embraces by turning into a seal, and they had Phocus.
At Aegina, Telamon killed Phocus with a quoit. When the murder was detected, Aeacus expelled Telamon and Peleus from Aegina: “But the murder being detected, the two were driven fugitives from Aegina by Aeacus.”
Relationship record
Life events
- Telamon killed Phocus with a quoit, and Aeacus expelled Telamon and Peleus from Aegina.(Apollodorus, Library 3.12 · 📍 Aegina)
Apollodorus, Library 1.8
Apollodorus, Library 3.12
- parent: Zeus “Zeus cohabited with her and begot a son Aeacus on her.”
- parent: Aegina “Zeus cohabited with her and begot a son Aeacus on her.”
- married with Endeis “And Aeacus married Endeis, daughter of Sciron, by whom he had two sons, Peleus and Telamon.”
- courtship with Psamathe “Afterwards Aeacus cohabited with Psamathe, daughter of Nereus, who turned herself into a seal to avoid his embraces”
- child: Phocus “and he begot a son Phocus.”
- with Peleus (interaction) “the two were driven fugitives from Aegina by Aeacus.”
- with Telamon (interaction) “the two were driven fugitives from Aegina by Aeacus.”
Hesiod, Theogony 979-1021
- admired: Psamathe “Psamathe the fair goddess, was loved by Aeacus through golden Aphrodite and bare Phocus.”
- courtship with Psamathe “Psamathe the fair goddess, was loved by Aeacus through golden Aphrodite and bare Phocus.”
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