: ("ant") invented several contradictory
: explanations for it." blah blah blah "The
: Myrmidons are perhaps best known as the soldiers whom
: Peleus' son, Achilles, led to Troy"
Yea.. Achilles lead the myrmidons to troy, and here's the greek myth which explains the ant thing.
The Myrmidons were men created from ants on the island of Aegina, in the reighn of Aeacus, Achilles' grandfather. They changed into men from ants because of one of Hera's attacks of jealousy. She was angry because (the ever mischevous) Zeus loved Aegina, the maiden for whom the island was named, and whose son, Aecus, became its king. Hera sent a fearful pestilence which destroyed the people by thousands. It seemed that no one would be left alive. Aecus climbed to the lofty temple of Zeus and prayed to him, reminding him that he was his son and the son of the woman the god had loved. As he spoke, he saw a troop of busy ants. "Oh Father", he cried "make of these creatures a people for me, as numerous as they, and fill my empty city." A peal of thunder seemed to answer him and that night he dreamed that he saw ants being transformed human shape. At daybreak, his son Telamon wokr him saying that a great host of men was apporaching the palace. He went out and saw a multitude, as many as the ants in number, all crying out that they were his faithful subjects. So Aegina was repopulated from an ant hill and its people were called Myrmidons after the ant (myrmex) from which they had sprung.
-Milk Man
