InGreek mythology,Arcesius,Arceisius,Arkeisios orArcisius (Ancient Greek:Ἀρκείσιος) was the son of eitherZeus orCephalus, and king inIthaca.
According toscholia on theOdyssey, Arcesius' parents were Zeus andEuryodeia;[1]Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.[2] Other sources make him a son of Cephalus.Aristotle in his lost workThe 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 andProcris,[4] while Eustathius and the exegetical scholia to theIliad report a version according to which Arcesius was a grandson of Cephalus throughCillus orCeleus.[5]
Zeus made Arcesius' line one of "only sons": his only son wasLaertes, whose only son wasOdysseus (albeit siring a daughter namedCtimene[6]), whose only son wasTelemachus.[7] Arcesius's wife (and thus mother of Laertes) wasChalcomedusa.[8]
Arceisiades (Ancient Greek:Ἀρκεισιάδης) was apatronymic from Arcesius, which Laertes as well as his son, Odysseus, is designated by.[9]
Of anotherArcesius, an architect,Vitruvius (vii, introduction) notes: "Arcesius, on theCorinthian order proportions, and on theIonic order temple ofAesculapius atTralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands."
This article incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870)."Arceisiades". InSmith, William (ed.).Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 253.
.jpg) | This article relating to a royal inGreek mythology is astub. You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
.jpg)
.jpg)
