Aeacus

Also known as: Aeaeus · Family: Aegina · Role: father of Telamon · First appears: Book I 1

In Book I, Aeacus is the parent of Telamon and Peleus, named among “the sons of Aeacus,” and is also the parent of Phoeus, whom they had slain. In Book III, Zeus is identified as Aeacus’s parent: “Zeus himself begat Aeacus.”

Relationship record

Book I 1

• child: Telamon “After them came the sons of Aeacus”
• child: Peleus “After them came the sons of Aeacus”
• child: Phoeus “when in their folly they had slain their brother Phoeus”

Book I 10

• child: Telamon (Aeacus is identified as Telamon’s father.) “had not the two sons of Thracian Boreas held back the son of Aeacus with harsh words”

Book II 7

• child: Peleus “Son of Aeacus, is it well for us to give up our toils and linger on in a strange land?”

Book III 3

• child: Telamon “and this is Telamon sprung from famous Aeacus”
• parent: Zeus “and Zeus himself begat Aeacus.”

Book III 4

• child: Peleus “So spake the son of Aeacus;”

Book IV 4

• child: Peleus (Peleus is identified as the son of Aeacus.) “Thus he spake; and the youths assented to the words of Aeacus’ son.”

Book IV 7

• child: Peleus “and she drew near and just touched the hand of Aeaeus’ son Peleus”

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Extracted from the original text of The Argonautica. Made with Rho MD.