Acratus
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Acratus is the name of more than one figure in Classical mythology and history:
- Acratus was a freedman of Nero. He was sent by Nero in 64 AD to Asia and Achaea to plunder the temples and take away the statues of the gods.[1][2]
- Acratus is also the name by which Pausanias called the hero Acratopotes.
[edit] References
- ^ Tacitus, Annales xv. 45, xvi. 23
- ^ Smith, William (1867), “Acratus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 14
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).
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