Ancaeus

A son of the Arcadian Lycurgus and Cleophile or Eurynome, and father of Agapenor.1 He was one of the Argonauts and partook in the Calydonian Hunt, in which he was killed by the boar.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 8.2; iii, 9.2, 10.8; Hyginus. Fabulae, 173; Homer. Iliad ii, 609.
  2. Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.16 and 23; comp. Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 5.2, 45.2; Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica ii, 894; Ovid. Metamorphoses viii, 400.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.