Myrmidons
(ant people)
Mythology: The Myrmidons were originally worker ants. On the
Aeacus and his mother were the only survivors on the island. Aeacus saw ants that were unaffected from the pestilence. Aeacus prayed to his father that if he and his mother were to survive on the island, he need to repopulate the island with people. Aeacus asked that the people were as hardy as the worker ants. Zeus answered his son's prayer by transforming the ants into human. These ants became known as Myrmidons. The Myrmidons were also fierce warriors as well as loyal subjects. When Aiacos son Peleus fled the island after he and his brother Telamon had killed their halfbrother Phocos, the Myrmidons came with him. They settled in
When the Greeks fought in the Trojan War, Peleus' son, Achilles, brought the Myrmidons to
