In Greek mythology, Myrmidon ( or ; ) was the eponymous ancestor of the Myrmidons in one version of the myth.Hellanicus in Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller's Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, vol. 1, 48, 17

Family Myrmidon was the son of Zeus and Eurymedusa,Eustathius ad Homer, Iliad 113.1 & 320.42; Eratosthenes in Servius ad Aeneid 2.7 daughter of Cleitor (Cletor)Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 1, p. 41 (p. 34); Arnobius, Adversus Nationes 4.26 or of the river god Achelous.Clement of Alexandria, Recognitions 10.22; Pseudo-Clement, Homilia 5.13

He married Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus and Enarete, and by her became the father of Antiphus and Actor.Apollodorus, 1.7.3 Also given as his sons were ErysichthonAelian, Varia Historia 1.27; Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 10.9b and Dioplethes, father of Perieres,Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 16.177 although Erysichthon and Perieres have been ascribed with different parentage. Also, Myrmidon had two daughters: Eupolemeia (mother of the Argonaut Aethalides by Hermes)Apollonius Rhodius, 1.55; Hyginus, Fabulae 14 and Hiscilla (mother of Phorbas by Triopas).Hyginus, De astronomia 2.14.5

Mythology Zeus was said to have approached Eurymedusa in the form of an ant (Greek μύρμηξ, myrmēx), which was where her son's name came from; others say that Myrmex was the name of Eurymedusa's mortal husband, and that it was his shape that Zeus assumed to approach her.Scholia ad Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 1, p. 426

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