Myrmidons

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Army of Myrmidons: Στρατὸς Μυρμιδών (-όνος), ὁ (Euripides, I. A. 1353).

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The Myrmidons (or Myrmidones Μυρμιδόνες) were an ancient nation of Greek mythology. In Homer's Iliad, the Myrmidons are the soldiers commanded by Achilles. Their eponymous ancestor was Myrmidon, a king of Phthiotis who was a son of Zeus and "wide-ruling" Eurymedousa, a princess of Phthiotis. She was seduced by him in the form of an ant. An etiological myth of their origins, simply expanding upon their supposed etymology—the name in Classical Greek was interpreted as "ant-people", from murmekes, "ants"—was first mentioned by Ovid, in Metamorphoses: in Ovid's telling, the Myrmidons were simple worker ants on the island of Aegina.

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ar: المرميديون; bg: Мирмидони; br: Mirmidoned; ca: Mirmídons; cs: Myrmidoni; da: Myrmidoner; de: Myrmidonen; el: Μυρμιδόνες; en: Myrmidons; es: Mirmidones; eu: Mirmidoi; fi: Myrmidonit; fr: Myrmidons; gl: Mirmidóns; he: מירמידונים; hr: Mirmidonci; hu: Mürmidónok; it: Mirmidoni; ja: ミュルミドーン人; ka: მირმიდონები; la: Myrmidones; mr: मायर्मिडन्स; nl: Myrmidonen; no: Myrmidonere; oc: Mirmidons; pl: Myrmidonowie; pt: Mirmidão; rue: Мирмидоны; ru: Мирмидоняне; sh: Mirmidonci; simple: Myrmidons; sk: Myrmidoni; sl: Mirmidonci; sv: Myrmidonerna; tr: Myrmidonlar; uk: Мірмідони