Acamas

Acamas or Akamas (/ɑːˈkɑːmɑːs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀκάμας, folk etymology: "unwearying") was a name attributed to several characters in Greek mythology. The following three all fought in the Trojan War, and only the first was not mentioned by Homer.

Notes

  1. Virgil, Aeneid 2.262
  2. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca Epitome of Book 4.3.34
  3. Homer, Iliad 6.8
  4. Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica 1.950
  5. Orphic Argonautica, 502
  6. Hyginus, Fabulae 16
  7. Homer, Iliad 2.844 & 5.462
  8. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 2.35
  9. Dares Phrygius, History of the Fall of Troy 18
  10. Dictys Cretensis, Trojan War Chronicle 3.4
  11. Hyginus, Fabulae 115
  12. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Epitome 7.27
  13. Statius, Thebaid 3.173
  14. Statius, Thebaid 7.589
  15. Statius, Thebaid 8.445
  16. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.583
  17. Hyginus, Fabulae 181

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Acamas". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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