Acestor

Acestor (Greek: Ἀκέστωρ) was the name of several figures in Classical mythology and history:

  • Acestor, a sculptor mentioned by Pausanias as having executed a statue of Alexibius,[9] a native of Heraea in Arcadia, who had gained a victory in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games. He was born at Cnossus, or at any rate exercised his profession there for some time.[10] He had a son named Amphion, who was also a sculptor, and had studied under Ptolichus of Corcyra;[11] so that Acestor must have been a contemporary of the latter, who flourished around Olympiad 82 (452 BC).[12]

References

  1. Euripides, Andromache 901
  2. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acestor (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 7
  3. Plutarch, Greek Questions, 37
  4. Aristophanes Aves, 31
  5. Schol. ad loc.
  6. Vespae. 1216
  7. Phot. and Suda s.v. Σάκας
  8. Whiston, Robert (1867), "Acestor (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 7
  9. Pausanias, vi. 17. § 2
  10. Pausanias, x. 15. § 4
  11. Pausanias, vi. 3. § 2
  12. Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Acestor (3)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 7

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