Acessamenus
In Greek mythology, Acessamenus[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Ἀκεσσάμενος) was a king of Pieria. He was known as the founder and eponym of Akesamenai, a city in Macedonia.[1] In the Iliad, Acessamenus is mentioned as having several daughters, the eldest of whom, Periboea, had a son Pelagon by the river god Axius.[2]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ RE, s.v. Akesamenos; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Akesamenai (Ἀκεσαμεναί).
- ↑ Homer, Iliad 21.142–144
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References
[edit]- Homer, The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, Band I, Halbband 1, edited by Georg Wissowa, Stuttgart, J. B. Metzler, 1893. Wikisource.
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790–1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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