Aeacus Acheron to be tormented by the hounds of Cocytus, the Echidna, the Tartesian eel, and Tithrasian Gorgons. Alexander the Great traced his ancestry through his mother to Aeacus. Aeacus Aeacus (; also spelled Eacus; Ancient Greek: Αἰακός) was a mythological king of the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. Aeacus was the son of Zeus by Aegina, a daughter of the river-god Asopus or by Europa in some accounts. Compare Plato, "Gorgias", 524a. He was the father of Peleus, Telamon and Phocus and was the grandfather of the Trojan war warriors Achilles and Telemonian Ajax. Aeacus was born on
Greek battleship Salamis balance of power such as that which prevailed in the Mediterranean." Both the Greeks and Ottomans were reportedly interested in the Argentine ships, and Venizelos attempted to buy one of the s then being built in the United States for the Argentine Navy as an alternative to redesigning "Salamis", in the process delaying her completion. When the Argentine government refused to sell the ship, he agreed to redesigning "Salamis", and a committee that included Greek and British naval officers was created to revise the design. The committee favored a design, but Hubert Searle Cardale, the only member of the British