Achaeus (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Achaeus or Achaios (/əˈkiːəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιός Akhaiós, derived from αχος achos, "grief, pain, woe") was the name of two mythological characters:

• Achaeus, son of Poseidon and the eponym of Achaea.[1]
• Achaeus, son of Xuthus and mythical founder of Achaean race.[2]
• Achaeus, son of Phthia, daughter of Phoroneus and the god Zeus.[3] [4]

Notes

1. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.17.3
2. Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10a.20–4
3. Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions 10.21
4. Servius, Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid 1. 242 (Latin) '

References

• Pseudo-Clement, Recognitions from Ante-Nicene Library Volume 8, translated by Smith, Rev. Thomas. T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theio.com.
• Dionysus of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities. English translation by Earnest Cary in the Loeb Classical Library, 7 volumes. Harvard University Press, 1937-1950. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site
• Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitatum Romanarum quae supersunt, Vol I-IV. . Karl Jacoby. In Aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1885. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Hesiod, Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.