Acestor

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

• Apollo Acestor, an epithet of the god Apollo in his role as healer or averter of evil.^[1][2]

• Acestor Sacas, surnamed "Sacas" (Σάκας) on account of his foreign origin, was a tragic poet at Athens, and a contemporary of Aristophanes. He seems to have been either of Thracian or Mysian origin.^{[3][4][5][6][7]}

• Acestor, a sculptor mentioned by Pausanias as having executed a statue of Alexibius,^[8] 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.^[9] He had a son named Amphion, who was also a sculptor, and had studied under Ptolichus of Corcyra;^[10] so that Acestor must have been a contemporary of the latter, who flourished around Olympiad 82 (452 BC).^[11]

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).