Acraepheus
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Template:Short description Acraepheus (Ancient Greek: Ἀκραιφεύς) was, in Greek mythology, a son of Apollo to whom the foundation of the town of Acraephnium, a Boeotian town on the lake Copais, was ascribed.[1] In Acraephnium, Apollo was attached with the epithet Acraephius or Acraephiaeus by worshipers.[2] Acraepheus could have been father of Ptous by Euxippe.[2][3]
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- ↑ a b Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Akraiphia (Ακραιφία)
- ↑ Herodian, 1.112 & 337
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References
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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