Acontius (sometimes Akontius) was a beautiful youth of the island of Ceos. On one occasion he came to Delos to celebrate the annual festival of Artemis (or Diana), and fell in love with Cydippe, the daughter of a noble Athenian. When he saw her sitting in the temple attending to the sacrifice she was offering, …
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Achelois is the surname of the Ancient Greek mythological Sirens, the daughters of Achelous and a muse, or Asterope. Any account of the Sirens must include a mention of Achelous, the most revered of our river-gods, to whom, (and sometimes to Phorkys), is said to be the father of the Sirens. Herakles fought with this …
Acestes, a son of the Sicilian river-god Crimisus and of a Trojan woman of the name of Egesta or Segesta (Vergil, Aeneid. 1.195, 550, 5.36, 711, &c.), who according to Servius was sent by her father Hippotes or Ipsostratus to Sicily, that she might not be devoured by the monsters [Greek invaders], which infested the territory of Troy, …
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Also known as Akademos, Hekademos or Hecademus was, an Attic hero, who, when Castor and Polydeuces [or Pollux] invaded Attica to liberate their sister Helen, revealed to them that she was hidden at Aphidnae. For this reason the Tyndarids [Castor and Pollux] always showed him much gratitude, and whenever the Lacedaemonians (Ancient Spartans) invaded Attica, …