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plural Myrmidons
(Greek mythology) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompanied Achilles, their king, in the Trojan War. quotations
The Myrmidons were the soldiers of Achilles, in the Trojan war. From them all zealous and unscrupulous followers of a political chief are called by that name, down to this day. But the origin of the Myrmidons would not give one the idea of a fierce and bloody race, but rather of a laborious and peaceful one.
1855, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter XII, in The Age of Fable
(Greek mythology) The ancestral hero of the Myrmidon tribe, son of Zeus and Eurymedusa.