CHAPTER X

ÆAKUS AND HIS DESCENDANTS.—ÆGINA, SALAMIS, AND PHTHIA.

Æakus—son of Zeus and Ægina.—Offspring of Æakus—Pêleus, Telamôn, Phôkus.—Prayers of Æakus—procure relief for Greece—Phôkus killed by Pêleus and Telamôn.—Telamôn, banished, goes to Salamis.—Pêleus—goes to Phthia—his marriage with Thetis.—Neoptolemus.—Ajax, his son Philæus the eponymous hero of a dême in Attica.—Teukrus banished, settles in Cyprus.—Diffusion of the Æakid genealogy. 184-190