Arkesilaos (Boeotia)

Arkesilaos ( Greek  Ἀρκεσίλαος ) is a figure in Greek mythology . He is the son of Areïlykos or Archilykos and brother of Prothoënor . According to Hyginus , he is the son of Lycus and Theobule .

In the Trojan War he was one of the Boiotier military leaders and was killed by Hector . Leïtos , another leader, brought the body back to Boeotia. A monument was erected to Arkesilaos on the bank of the Herkyna River near the city of Lebadeia .

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Arkesilaos 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 554 ( digitized version ).
• Ulrich Hoefer : Arkesilaos 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume II, 1, Stuttgart 1895, col. 1162.

Remarks

1. ↑ Scholion to Homer , Iliad 2, 494.
2. ^ Diodorus 4, 67.
3. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 97.
4. ↑ Homer, Iliad 2:495; 15, 329; Quintus of Smyrna 8, 304.
5. ^ Pausanias 9:39, 3.