Achates (disambiguation)

Achates stands for:

• Agate , an ancient name for the mineral
• Agates , a figure from ancient mythology
• Agates, in Greek mythology a companion of Dionysus to India
• Agates (river) , in ancient times a river in Sicily after which the agate was named, today the Carabi or Canitello
• (5144) Achates , an asteroid and Jupiter trojan
• HMS Achates , the name of several warships in the British Royal Navy

Achates is the name of the following people:

• Leonardus Achates (* before 1472, † after 1491), printer from Basel

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.