Aeacids

Aeacids

The Aeacids in ancient Greece were regarded as the descendants of Aeacus, son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina. The son of Aeacus was Peleus who was the son of Peleus Achilles, son of Achilles Neoptolemus, son of Neoptolemus Molossus ancestor of the Molossians. Famous Aeacids were Pyrrhus of Epirus, Olympias and Alexander the Great. [Chamoux, François and Roussel, Michel. "Hellenistic Civilization". Blackwell Publishing, 2003, p. 396, ISBN 0631222421. "AEACIDS Descendants of Aeacus, son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina, eponymous (see the term) to the island of that name. His son was Peleus, father of Achilles, whose descendants (real or supposed) called themselves Aeacids: thus Pyrrhus and Alexander the Great."]

ee also

*List of kings of Epirus

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