Mythology of Aegina (Aigina), in Argosaronikos, Greece

The ancient traveler Pausanias offers us some information on Aigina and her famous heroes. The nymph Aegina was the daughter of the River Asopus and sister of Salamis. She was the victim of the erotic passion of Zeus, who is said to have transformed himself either into an eagle or into fire, in order to abduct her.

He took her to the uninhabited island of Oinoi or Oinopia and had Aeacus by her. Her inconsolable father, Asopus, in his search for his daughter, he reached Corinth, which was suffering from a severe drought. He made water flow from a dry spring; and the King of Corinth Sisyphus disclosed the name of his daughter's abductor.

When Asopus finally found her, Zeus forced him to return to his river-bed. To punish Sisyphus for revealing his name to Asopus, Zeus condemned him, after his death, to push a boulder up a mountain, never reaching the top. Another version says that he transformed Aigina into an island and himself into a rock.
So that his child would not be alone, the father of the gods turned the island's ants into people, and that is why the Aiginetans were called Myrmidons.

Mythology of Aigina (Aegina)

Aeacus married Endeis, daughter of the Centaur Chiron and had two sons by her, Peleus and Telemon. Later, Aecus fell in love with the daughter of Nereus, Psamathe, who transformed herself into a seal in order to avoid him. But Aeacus was not intimidated, in the least, by her metamorphosis and had a son, Phocus, by her.

When Phocus grew up, he was first in all the athletic games and his brothers were jealous of him. So one day while Phocus was practicing discus - throwing, Telemon hit him in the head with a discus and killed him. His brothers hid his body in the woods, where Aeacus found it a few days later. Furious, he drove the two young men off the island. Aeacus, after that incident and many others as well, became the hero of the island.