In Greek mythology, a group of fierce fighters called the Myrmidons were commanded by which mighty warrior?
Myrmidons Myrmidons The Myrmidons ( "Myrmidones") were legendary people of Greek mythology, native to the region of Thessaly. During the Trojan War, they were commanded by Achilles, as described in Homer's "Iliad". According to Greek legend, they were created by Zeus from a colony of ants and therefore took their name from the Greek word for ant, "myrmex" (). Ovid mentions an etiological myth of the Myrmidons in "Metamorphoses", Book 7 (8 CE). In Ovid's telling, Hera, jealous because her husband Zeus has named the island of Aegina after his lover, the nymph Aegina, causes a devastating plague which wipes out
Theban kings in Greek mythology no Theban leader is mentioned by Homer in the "Iliad". Theban kings in Greek mythology The dynastic history of Thebes in Greek mythology is crowded with a bewildering number of kings between the city's new foundation (by Cadmus) and the Trojan War (see Ogyges). This suggests several competing traditions, which mythographers were forced to reconcile. The first kings of the Boeotia region (before Cadmus and the flood of Deucalion) were Calydnus and Ogyges (Ogygos). The first king of the settlement that would become Thebes was Cadmus, after whom the city was originally called Cadmeia. It only became known as Thebes