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Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press London: William Heinemann, Ltd.

Servii Grammatici qui feruntur in Vergilii carmina commentarii recensuerunt Georgius Thilo et Hermannus Hagen.

Maurus Servius Honoratus, In Vergilii carmina comentarii.

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Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant.

^ Hyginus, Fabulae 52 Servius' Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid 4.402.

Melite (= Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Müller, Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum, 1.

^ Servius' Commentary on Virgil, Aeneid 4.402.

In the account of Strabo, these people received their name because they excavated the earth after the manner of ants and spread the soil over the rocks, so as to have ground to till, and also because they lived in the dugouts, refraining from the use of soil for bricks Then, the god in answer of the prayer, metamorphosed all the ants of the country into men, who were thence called Myrmidones, because in Greek ants are called 'myrmekes'.

Aeacus while gazing at some ants begged his father to give him men for defense. After a great famine had occurred, the king lost his allies and could not protect himself on the account of the scarcity of men. In each of these systems, agents residing on one scale start producing behavior that lies a scale above them: ants create colonies, urbanites create neighborhoods. Zeus made his son Aeacus king of Thessaly, usually the island of Aegina, which was not inhabited by human beings. Systems that at first glance seem vastly different - ant colonies, human brains, cities, immune systems - all turn out to follow the rules of emergence. Myrmex, that is, an ant, from which animal, according to some traditions, the Myrmidons in Thessaly derived their name.Myrmex, according to Philochorus, was the father of Melite, from whom the Attic demos of Melite derived its name.As viewed by Ethan Watters in his essay The Mega-Marketing of Depression in Japan, culture plays an important in an individual’s life since culture has the. Their behaviors are often targeted as the starting point of changes. When the goddess had invented the plough, the girl boastfully pretended to have made the discovery herself, whereupon she was metamorphosed into an ant. Environment and Culture often play a huge role in shaping an individual. Myrmex, an Attic maiden who was beloved by Athena.In Greek mythology, Myrmex ( Ancient Greek: Μύρμηξ) may refer to the following two individuals and a being: