Akamas (son of Theseus)

Akamas and Demophon with their horses. Attic neck amphora , Exekias around 540 BC Chr.

Akamas ( Greek Ἀκάμας ; Latin Akamant) is a figure in Greek mythology . Akamas is a son of Theseus and Phaidra . Like his brother Demophon , he took part in the Trojan War . He was one of the eponymous phylene heroes of Athens .

The myth of the Thracian princess Phyllis is connected to the Akamas .

literature

Julius Adolf Bernhard : Akamas 4 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 205 f. ( Digitized version ).
Emily Kearns: Akamas. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 1, Metzler, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-476-01471-1 , Sp. 389-389.
Uta Kron : Akamas and Demophon . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume 000001I, Zurich / Munich 1981, pp. 435-446.
Johannes Toepffer : Akamas 4 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Sp. 1143-1145.

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