place
Aegina
also: Oenopia
Island in the Saronic Gulf, once called Oenopia, renamed by Aeacus after his mother, the nymph Aegina; struck by Juno's plague and repeopled as the Myrmidons.
Reading notes
- Metamorphoses §7.175 Minos makes for Oenopia
The island of Aegina (formerly Oenopia), renamed by Aeacus for his mother; later struck by Juno's plague.