Achaios
Achaios ( Greek Ἀχαιός ) is the eponymous hero of the Achaeans in Greek mythology .
In the library of Apollodorus , Strabo and Pausanias he is the son of Xuthos , son of Hellen , and of Krëusa , daughter of Erechtheus . His brother is Ion . After Xuthos was expelled from Athens, Achaios went with him to Aigaialos , which was later named Achaia after him . There are also various deviating genealogical information. Dionysius of Halicarnassus names him as the son of Poseidon and Larissa , Servius as the son of Iuppiter and Phthia and in the Scholion of Homer's Iliad he is mentioned as the son of Haimon , after whom Thessaly is said to have been called Haimonia earlier . Pelasgos and Phthios are named here as his brothers . The sons of Achaios are Archandros and Archiletes .
literature
- Roscher: Achaios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 6 ( digitized version ).
- Johannes Toepffer : Achaios 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 205.
Web links
- Achaeus in Greek Myth index (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 7, 3.
- ↑ Strabon 8, 383.
- ↑ Pausanias 7, 1, 2 ff.
- ↑ Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities 1, 17.
- ^ Servius commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 1, 242.
- ↑ Scholion to Iliad 2, 681 as well as Eustathios of Thessalonike to the passage. In Stephanos of Byzantium sv Ἑλλάς only Phthios is mentioned.
- ↑ Herodotus 2:98.
- ^ Pausanias 2: 6, 2.
- ↑ Scholion to Euripides The Trojans 1128