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Aeacidae refers to the descendants of Aeacus, most notably Peleus, son of Aeacus, and Achilles, grandson of Aeacus. Neoptolemus was the son of Achilles and the princess Deidamea. Olympias was the daughter of Neoptolemus and the mother to Alexander the Great.

Aeacus of Greek mythology was the king of the island of Aegina, which is in the Saronic Gulf. From this mythology, Aeacus is the son of Zeus and Aegina, a daughter of Asopus and Metope. Aeacus' first wife was Endeis, a woman of unknown parental lineage. They had two sons: Peleus (father of Achilles) and Telamon (father of Ajax 1).

Aeacus' second wife was the Nereid, Psamathe 1. They then had a son called Phocus 3.

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• Greek Mythology Link: Aeacus

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).

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