Acheles (mythology)

Acheles ( ancient Greek Ἀχέλης ) is a son of Heracles and the Lydian queen Omphale in Greek mythology .

In the scholias of Homer's Iliad he is named as brother or stepbrother of Hyllos and, like the latter, is named after a Lydian river, the Acheles , which runs at Sipylos and Smyrna . In other sources, the son of Herakles and Omphale is named Akeles , Agelaos or Alkaios .

literature

• Karl Tümpel : Acheles . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 212.
• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Acheles . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 6 ( digitized version ).

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} Scholion for Homer's Iliad 24, 616.
2. ↑ Hellanikos of Lesbos with Stephanos of Byzantium sv Ἀκέλης .
3. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 7, 8.
4. ↑ Herodotus 1, 7.