A daughter of the river Asopus carried off by Zeus, by whom she became mother of Aeacus; the island to which she was taken bears her name.1
Apollodorus reckons Aegina among the daughters of the river Asopus, whom Metope, herself a daughter of the river Ladon, bore to him together with two sons and twenty daughters in all. Of these one, Aegina, was carried off by Zeus. In search of her Asopus came to Corinth and there learned from Sisyphus that the ravisher was Zeus; he pursued the god, but Zeus by hurling thunderbolts drove him back to his own streams.2
Having conveyed Aegina to the island then named Oenone, Zeus lay with her and begot a son, Aeacus; and the island was afterward called Aegina after her. Since Aeacus grew up alone there, Zeus made the ants of the island into men to be his people. Pausanias likewise counts Aegina a daughter of the Phliasian Asopus and says she gave her new name to the island that had been Oenone.3
Hyginus tells the union differently. When Jupiter wished to lie with Aegina, daughter of Asopus, he feared Juno and so carried the girl to the island of Delos, and there made her pregnant; Aeacus was their son. When Juno discovered it, she sent a serpent into the water in her anger.4
Ovid keeps her among the loves of Jupiter that Arachne wove into her tapestry, where the god comes to Aegina hidden in his own flame; and elsewhere he records that Aeacus, ruling the place once called Oenopia, renamed the island Aegina from his mother's name.5
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