Aeacides
A patronymic given to the various descendants of Aeacus, such his sons Peleus,1 Telamon,2 and Phocus;3 his grandson Achilles;4 and Pyrrhus, his great-grandson.5
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References
Notes
- Ovid. Metamorphoses xi, 227 ff.; xii, 365; Homer. Iliad xvi, 15.
- Ovid. Metamorphoses viii, 4; Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica i, 1330.
- Ovid. Metamorphoses vii, 668, 798.
- Homer. Iliad x, 805; Virgil. Aeneid i, 99.
- Virgil. Aeneid iii, 296
Source
- Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.