Acis The lover of Galatea. The son of Faunus and Symaethis. (See Claude Lorrain’s painting – Landscape with Acis and Galatea – Gemäldegalerie, Dresden) Bk XIII:738-788. Galatea loves him. Bk XIII:789-869. Polyphemus threatens him. Bk XIII:870-897. Polyphemus kills him with a rock and he is changed by Galatea into his ancestral form of a river. Acmon A companion of Diomede. He insults Venus and is transformed into a bird. Bk XIV:483-511. Acoetes A Tyrrhenian from Maeonia, a ship’s captain and priest of Bacchus, captured by Pentheus. There is the suggestion later that Acoetes is a manifestation of Bacchus himself ( ‘nec enim praesentior illo est deus’). Bk III:572-596. (See Euripides: The Bacchae) Bk III:597-637. He tells of them finding Bacchus on Chios, and how he knew that the boy was a god, and tried to avoid sacrilege. Bk III:638-691. He escapes the transformation of the ship and crew by Bacchus. Bk III:692-733. He vanishes from Pentheus’s prison mysteriously. Aconteus A companion of Perseus, inadvertently turned to stone. Bk V:200-249. Acrisioniades Perseus, as the grandson of Acrisius. Bk V:30-73. Acrisius King of Argos, the son of Abas, father of Danaë, and grandfather of Perseus. He opposed the worship of Bacchus-Dionysus. Bk III:528-571. Bk IV:604-662. He rejects the divine origin of Bacchus and Perseus, but will live to regret it. He is kin to Cadmus and to Bacchus son of Semele, Cadmus’s daughter, because Danaüs is his ancestor whose line runs back to Belus, brother of Agenor, who is father of Cadmus. Both Belus and Agenor are sons of Neptune. Bk V:200-249. He is ousted by his brother Proetus, but has his kingdom restored to him, though little deserving it, by Perseus. Acropolis Confused with Areopagus. Acrota A mythical Alban king. Bk XIV:609-622. |
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