Acoetes

Acoetes (from Greek Ἀκοίτης, via Latin Ăcoetēs) was the name of three men in Greek and Roman mythology.

  • Acoetes, a fisherman who helped the god Bacchus.[1]
  • Acoetes, father to Laocoon, who warned about the Trojan Horse.[2]
  • Acoetes, an aged man who was the former squire Evander in Arcadia, before the latter emigrated to Italy.[3]
  • Acoetes, a soldier in the army of the Seven against Thebes. When this army hit the Thebes for the first time on the plain, a fierce battle took place at the gates of the city. During these fights Agreus, from Calydon, cut off the arm of the Theban Phegeus. The severed limb fell to the ground while the hand still held the sword. Acoetes, who came forward, was so terrified of that arm that he hit it with his own sword.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Smith, William (1867), "Acoetes", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, p. 13
  2. ↑ Hyginus. Fabulae 135. Translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies, no. 34. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1960.
  3. ↑ Virgil. Aeneid Book 11.30. Translated by Theodore C. Williams, Ed. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910.
  4. ↑ Statius. The Thebaid, 8.428ff

Sources

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