Arcesius
A son of Zeus and Euryodia, husband of Chalcomedusa and father of Laërtes.1 According to Hyginus,2 he was a son of Cephalus and Procris, and according to others, of Cephalus and a she-bear.3
His grandson is Odysseus.
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References
Notes
- Homer. Odyssey xiv, 182; xvi, 118; Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.16; Ovid. Metamorphoses xiii, 145; Eustathius on Homer, p. 1796.
- Fabulae, 189.
- Eustathius on Homer, p. 1961, comp., 1756.
Source
- Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.