Acamas

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This article is about Acamas in Greek mythology; for the promontory at the northwestern point of Cyprus also called Acamas, see Akamas

Acamas (English translation: "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.

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[edit] Son of Theseus

Main article: Acamas, son of Theseus

Acamas was the son of Phaedra and Theseus, and half brother to Demophoon. Virgil mentions him as being in the Trojan horse.

[edit] Son of Eussorus

This Acamas was a son of Eussorus, and resident of Aenus on the eastern coast of Thrace. With his comrade Peiros, son of Imbrasus, Acamas led a contingent of Thracian warriors to the Trojan War.[1] He was killed by Ajax.[2]

[edit] Son of Antenor

With his brother Archelochus and his cousin Aeneas, Acamas, son of Antenor and Theano, led the Dardanian contingent to assist King Priam.[3] Along with Aeneas and Archelochus he led one of the five divisions attacking the Argive wall in the battle for the ships. He avenged the death of his brother, who had been killed by Ajax, by slaying Promachus the Boeotian.[4] He was killed possibly by Meriones in book 16 of the Iliad,[5] but the Acamas killed there was not specifically identified as a son of Antenor. Quintus of Smyrna describes him as having been killed by Philoctetes.[6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Homer. Iliad, ii. 844, v. 462.
  2. ^ Homer. Iliad, vi. 8.
  3. ^ Homer. Iliad, ii. 823, xii. 100.
  4. ^ Homer. Iliad, xiv. 476.
  5. ^ Homer. Iliad, xvi. 342.
  6. ^ Quintus Smyrnaeus. The Fall of Troy, 10.168.

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