Actor (Phthia)
Aktor ( Greek Ἄκτωρ ), son of Myrmidon and Peisidice , is a figure in Greek mythology .
As king of Phthia he granted protection to the fugitive Peleus and cleansed him of his blood guilt: the hero had been expelled from the kingdom of her father Aiakos for the murder of his half-brother Phokos . Since Aktor was childless, he installed Peleus as his successor.
In other versions of the story, Aktor had his own descendants, namely Polymele (also called Philomele), as well as Eurytion , who in turn ascended the phthic throne. Depending on the version, Peleus received the Polymele as a wife; Eurytion in turn became the grandson of the actor. In the older saga, Antiphos is named as Aktors' brother.
Since Aktor simply means “(an) leader”, quite a number of people bear this name. Added to this is the transfer of the legend from Thessaly to Aegina , which required an adaptation of the genealogy; the motive of atonement also recurs in many variations. So it is often Eurytion (as the son or grandson of the actor) who grants Peleus protection and hands over his daughter and kingdom to him. In the course of the Calydonian boar hunt , Peleus accidentally kills Eurytion and has to flee to Iolkos , where he is in turn atoned by the local king Akastos .
literature
- Hiller v. Gaertringen : Aktor 5 and 9. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1893ff., Col. 1216 f.
- Julius Adolf Bernhard : Actuator 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, Col. 217 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Hans von Geisau : Actuator 2. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 224.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans von Geisau : Aktor 3. In: Der Kleine Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, Col. 224.
- ^ Richard Pietschmann : Antiphos 8. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswwissenschaft (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2531.
- ^ Wilhelm Gemoll : Greek-German school and hand dictionary . G. Freytag / Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Munich / Vienna 1965, p. 29.
- ↑ Leo Bloch : Peleus . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, column 1830 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Konrad Seeliger : Akastos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 209 ( digitized version ).