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Aeacides

Αἰακίδης

(Αἰακίδης), a patronymic from Aeacus, and given to various of his descendants, as Peleus (Ov. Met. 11.227, &c., 12.365; Hom. Il. 16.15), Telamon (Ov. Met. 8.4; Apollon. 1.1330), Phocus (Ov. Met. 7.668, 798), the sons of Aeacus; Achilles, the grandson of Acacus (Hom. Il. 11.805; Verg. A. 1.99); and Pyrrhus, the great-grandson of Aeacus. (Verg. A. 3.296.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.