Arcesius
Template:Short description In Greek mythology, Arcesius, Arceisius, Arkeisios or Arcisius (Template:Langx) was the son of either Zeus or Cephalus, and king in Ithaca.
Mythology
According to scholia on the Odyssey, Arcesius' parents were Zeus and Euryodeia;[1] Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.[2] Other sources make him a son of Cephalus. Aristotle in his lost work The State of the Ithacians cited a myth according to which Cephalus was instructed by an oracle to mate with the first female being he should encounter if he wanted to have offspring; Cephalus mated with a she-bear, who then transformed into a human woman and bore him a son, Arcesius.[3] Hyginus makes Arcesius a son of Cephalus and Procris,[4] while Eustathius and the exegetical scholia to the Iliad report a version according to which Arcesius was a grandson of Cephalus through Cillus or Celeus.[5]
Zeus made Arcesius' line one of "only sons": his only son was Laertes, whose only son was Odysseus (albeit siring a daughter named Ctimene[6]), whose only son was Telemachus.[7] Arcesius's wife (and thus mother of Laertes) was Chalcomedusa.[8]
Arcesius line
Arceisiades (Template:Langx) was a patronymic from Arcesius, which Laertes as well as his son, Odysseus, is designated by.[9]
Namesakes
Of another Arcesius, an architect, Vitruvius (vii, introduction) notes: "Arcesius, on the Corinthian order proportions, and on the Ionic order temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands."
Notes
References
- Homer. The Odyssey, Book XVI, in The Iliad & The Odyssey. Trans. Samuel Butler. p. 625. Template:ISBN.
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- ↑ Scholia & Eustathius ad Homer, Odyssey 16.118
- ↑ Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.144
- ↑ Aristotle in Etymologicum Magnum 130.21 under Arkeisios.
- ↑ Hyginus, Fabulae 189
- ↑ Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 2.173b; Eustathius ad Iliad 2.631
- ↑ Homer, Odyssey 15.363–364
- ↑ Template:Cite Odyssey, Template:Cite Odyssey; cf. Apollodorus, 1.9.16; Hyginus, Fabulae 173.
- ↑ Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 16.118; Eustathius, on Homer's Odyssey, p. 1796, 35.
- ↑ Template:Cite Odyssey, Template:Cite Odyssey.