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Acestor

Acestor (Ancient Greek: Ἀκέστωρ), meaning "healer" or "saviour", was the name of several figures in Classical mythology and history:

Mythological

  • Apollo Acestor, an epithet of the god Apollo in his role as healer or averter of evil.

  • Acestor, son of Ephippus, son of Poemander from Tanagra in Boeotia. He was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.**** Historical

  • Acestor, Cretan sculptor.

  • Acestor Sacas, surnamed "Sacas" (Σάκας) on account of his foreign origin, was a tragic poet at Athens, and a contemporary of Aristophanes. He seems to have been either of Thracian or Mysian origin.

  • Acestor, a sculptor mentioned by Pausanias as having executed a statue of Alexibius, a native of Heraea in Arcadia, who had gained a victory in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games. He was born at Knossos, or at any rate exercised his profession there for some time. He had a son named Amphion, who was also a sculptor, and had studied under Ptolichus of Corcyra; so that Acestor must have been a contemporary of the latter, who flourished around Olympiad 82 (452 BC).

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References

  1. [[Euripides]], ''[[Andromache (play). Andromache]]'' 901
  2. Schmitz, Leonhard. (1867). "[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]".
  3. [[Plutarch]], ''Quaestiones Graecae'' 37
  4. [[Aristophanes]] ''Aves,'' 31
  5. Schol. ''ad loc.''
  6. ''Vespae.'' 1216
  7. Phot. and [[Suda]] ''s.v.'' {{lang. grc. Σάκας
  8. Whiston, Robert. (1867). "[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]".
  9. [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], vi. 17. § 2
  10. [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], x. 15. § 4
  11. [[Pausanias (geographer). Pausanias]], vi. 3. § 2
  12. Mason, Charles Peter. (1867). "[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]".
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