Excerpt from Aeacus a Judge of the Underworld And since, to quote the paradox of Freeman, Local tradition is the most precious thing in the world when you can get it, only you never can it is precisely in the case of Heroes whose memory was kept green by local cults rather than embalmed by literature, that we may hope to learn something about their actual environment, something of that vanished world which bequeathed their names and graves to the reverent guardian ship of Hellas. Accordingly, this little Essay is an attempt to study Aeacus primarily as local Hero, and to correlate the myths concerning him with the historical facts of his cult in Aegina. Materials for such a study though exceedingly scattered are far from wanting; they can best perhaps be grouped according, to three main sources, corresponding to three well-marked phases in the history of Aeacus. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.