Akmon (son of Clytios)

Akmon ( Greek  Ἄκμων ) is in Roman mythology the son of Clytios and a companion of Aeneas from Lyrnessos in Phrygia . After the Trojan War , his family followed Aeneas into exile in Italy. The relevant verses of Virgil ( Aeneid 10.127-129) read:

A huge stone, quite a bit of the mountain,

With the strength of the body gathered, the lyricians carry Akmon,

As great as Clytios, who created it, and his brother Menestheus.

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Akmon 4) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 211 ( digitized version ).
• Ulrich Hoefer : Akmon 3 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1174.