person
Aeacus
Father of Peleus (husband of the sea-goddess Thetis) and grandfather of Achilles; the third of the underworld's judges.
Reading notes
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §14 Aeacus
A judge of the dead in the underworld, proverbial for justice; he tries Claudius under the murder law — and condemns him on one side's hearing.
- Hercules (Mad) §745 the father-in-law of Thetis
Aeacus, father of Peleus (husband of the sea-goddess Thetis), the third judge of the dead.
- Hercules on Oeta §1547 among Aeacus and the two Cretans
Aeacus, with Minos and Rhadamanthus (the 'two Cretans'), the three judges of the dead; Hercules will join them.
- The Trojan Women §359 Aeacus
Grandfather of Achilles, after death a judge of the dead; 'the shades by Aeacus' in Pyrrhus's boast of divine descent.