Argonaut and Calydonian boar hunter
InGreek mythology,Ancaeus (/ænˈsiːəs/;Ancient Greek: ἈγκαῖοςAnkaîos) was both anArgonaut[1] and a participant in theCalydonian Boar hunt, in which he met his end.
Ancaeus was the son of KingLycurgus[2] ofArcadia either byCleophyle orEurynome[3] orAntinoe.[4] Ancaeus marriedIotis and became the father ofAgapenor who led the Arcadian forces during theTrojan War.[5]
Ancaeus' arms were ominously hidden at home, but he set forth, dressed in a bearskin and armed only with alabrys (λάβρυς "doubled-bladed axe").[6]
- ^Apollodorus,1.9.16
- ^Apollodorus,1.9.16;Hyginus,Fabulae248
- ^Pausanias,8.4.10 &8.5.2
- ^Scholia adApollonius Rhodius, 1.164: Lycurgus' wife is otherwise known as Cleophyle or Eurynome.
- ^Apollodorus,3.10.8;Pausanias,8.5.2; Hyginus,Fabulae97
- ^Apollodorus, 1.8.2, 1.9.16, 3.9.2 & 3.10.7–8
- Apollodorus,The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.ISBN 0-674-99135-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.Greek text available from the same website.
- Pausanias,Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918.ISBN 0-674-99328-4.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias,Graeciae Descriptio.3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
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