Larchmont Chronicle
January 2018
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Ant-inspired soldiers, Myrmidons, guarded a young Achilles
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I just watched the movie “Troy” when channel surfing. Achilles (Brad Pitt) commands a crack group of fighters, whose name I didn’t catch. Who were they? asks Peter Grass. They were the Myrmidons — literally the ant people — from the Greek word for ant, myrmix. They gained this name from the legend that when the country of Aegina was depopulated by a plague, its king, Aeacus, prayed to Zeus that the ants running out of a nearby oak tree should be turned into men. The Myrmidons eventually emigrated to Thessaly with the banished Peleus, the son of Aeacus and father of Achilles. Achilles grew up with the Myrmidons as his bodyguards
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