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Myrmidons

Posted By: Milk Man (ip209.herndon24.va.pub-ip.psi.net)
Date: 10/23/1999 at 4:43 p.m.

Many of you may already know this but:

In the Illiad the Myrmidons are the soldiers under the command of Achilles from some island (I forgot it's name someone fill in here), the legend goes that a long time ago, all the people of that island were killed by a storm (different versions of the tale have different disasters i.e. god vengeance, invasions etc.) The king of the Island was devastated, and one of the gods (again I forgot which one Im pulling this from mememory, someone fill me in, I think it was Zeus or Poseidon) told the king to do some ritual, again this varies from tale to tale, but the gist of it is that all the ants of the Isle became the hardy (human) race of Myrmidons and the king lived happily ever after (sorta).

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