Acarnan
Frieze-Dennison Vergil
- pertaining to Acarnania, Acarnanian: amnis, i.e. Acheloüs, Sil. 3, 42 (cf. Ov. M. 8, 569); subst., an Acarnanian, an inhabitant of Acarnania, Verg. A. 5, 298; Liv. l. c.; from
(Ἀκαρνάν), one of the Epigones, was a son of Alcmaeon and Calirrhoe, and brother of Amphoterus. Their father was murdered by Phegeus, when they were yet very young, and Calirrhoe prayed to Zeus to make her sons grow quickly, that they might be able to avenge the death of their father. The prayer was granted, and Acarnan with his brother slew Phegeus, his wife, and his two sons. The inhabitants of Psophis, where the sons had been slain, pursued the murderers as far as Tegea, where however they were received and rescued. At the request of Achelous they carried the necklace and peplus of Harmonia to Delphi, and from thence they went to Epirus, where Acarnan founded the state called after him Acarnania. (Apollod. 3.7.5_7; Ov. Met. 9.413, &c.; Thuc. 2.102; Strab. x. p.462.) [L.S]
and Amphotĕrus. The sons of Alcmaeon and Callirrhoë. Their mother, hearing of her husband's murder by Phegeus and his sons, prayed Zeus, who loved her, to let her sons grow up into men at once, so as to avenge their father. This done, they slew the sons of Phegeus at Tegea and himself at Psophis, offered up at Delphi the jewels of Harmonia, which they thus acquired, and then founded a kingdom called after the elder of them Acarnania. See Alphesiboea.
- Paus. 8.24.9, Apollod. 3.7.6
- Amphoterus
- Apollod. E.7.25