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Aeacus

deity earth Greek corroborated · 4

Aeacus was the father of Telamon and grandfather of Ajax. He was the son of Zeus.

↻ synthesized from 4 sources

When

First attested
600 BCE
Attested period
-600 – 2020
Historical notes
Heroic figure associated with early Achaean religious reforms.

Relationships

co occurs with
Teucer, Eriboea, Pelops, Achaeus, Xuthus, Hellen, Hyperborean Apollo, Zeus Panhellenius, Auxesia, Damia, Delphic oracle, Heracles, Achilles, Periboea, Ajax, Poseidon, Aeolus, Athena, Erechtheus
parent of
Peleus, Telamon
consort of
Endeis
allied with
Minos, Rhadamanthus
child of
Zeus, Aegina

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (1)
  1. Ajax the Great
encyclopedia (3)
  1. Achaeans (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  2. Aeacus (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed
  3. Aegina (Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.) (1911)
    peer reviewed

Source passages

“Ajax, who in the post-Homeric legend is described as the grandson of Aeacus and the great-grandson of Zeus”

#11594 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5

“Aeacus, who became master of Aegina and was said to have introduced there the worship of Zeus Panhellenius”

#43652 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free

“Aeacus, in Greek legend, the ancestor of the Aeacidae, was the son of Zeus and Aegina... after his death he was made judge of the lower world together with Minos and Rhadamanthus.”

#43744 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free

“the Delphic oracle that they should desist from attacking Aegina for thirty years, and content themselves meanwhile with dedicating a precinct to Aeacus”

#43764 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free