Aeacus
Half-Olympian son of Zeus by Europa per the Diodoran minority variant adopted under the registry's strict no-nymph-parent rule. (Dominant tradition has him by the river-nymph Aegina; that path is disallowed by the registry.) Eponymous king of Aegina; wartime fame in the rain-prayer that ended the pan-Hellenic drought; reputation for justice so manifest in life that he became one of the three judges of the dead after death, alongside Minos and Rhadamanthus — half-brothers under the Diodoran variant. Father of Telamon by Endeis, but the Aeacid line through Peleus is not registered: Endeis is Chiron's daughter, and Chiron's parentage (Titan father, Oceanid mother) violates the strict rule. The Telamon line through Ajax remains registry-eligible if Telamon's consort Eriboea is taken as mortal per the dominant tradition.
Parentage
Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.
- paternal: Zeus
Parentage accounts
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- Apollodorus: Zeus and AeginaFull parentage in this account. The legacy descent calculation retains its earlier baseline.
deity by descent in this account.
- father: ZeusApollodorus, Library 3.12.6 (primary)
- mother: AeginaApollodorus, Library 3.12.6 (primary)
Children
Domains
- justice and judgment
- underworld judgment of the dead
Powers
- Judge the souls of the dead
- Summon rain to end drought
Epithets
- Αἰακὸς δικαιότατος 'Aeacus the most just' — his standing reputation; worshipped at the Aiakeion at AeginaPindar, Isthmian 8.22-24 (primary); Pausanias 2.29.6-8 (primary)
Relations
- sibling: HebeFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- sibling: AresFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- sibling: ApolloFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- sibling: AthenaFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- sibling: DionysusFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- sibling: ArtemisFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- sibling: HermesFull sibling; shares the same complete attested parentage.
- mother: Europa (mortal Phoenician princess; daughter of King Agenor of Tyre, sister of Cadmus and Cilix). Per the Diodoran minority variant (apud Gyraldus, Syntagm. VII p. 216), Aeacus is the son of Zeus by Europa rather than by the daughter of Asopus. Adopted as registry-of-record because Europa is mortal. The Diodoran reading makes Aeacus a full-brother of Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Sarpedon — sons of Zeus by Europa — which has the additional benefit of explaining why he sits among Minos and Rhadamanthus as one of the three judges of the dead. · GreekDiod. apud Gyraldus, Syntagm. VII p. 216 (minority tradition) (secondary)
- father of: Telamon · GreekFather of Ajax the Greater and Teucer; co-killer of his half-brother Phocus. Telamon's wife Eriboea/Periboea is mortal in the dominant tradition, so the Telamon-Ajax line passes the strict registry parentage rule even though it remains unregistered as descendant entries (Ajax is a registry-eligible quartigod under this reading; not yet entered).Apollod. 3.12.6; Pind. Isth. 6.40-46 (primary)
- mother: AeginaApollodorus, Library 3.12.6 (primary)