Achaeus (son of Xuthus)

Achaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀχαιός) was, according to nearly all traditions, a son of Xuthus and Creusa, and consequently a brother of Ion and grandson of Hellen.^[1] The Achaeans regarded him as the author of their race, and derived from him their own name as well as that of Achaia, which was formerly called Aegialus. When his uncle Aeolus in Thessaly, whence he himself had come to Peloponnesus, died, he went there and made himself master of Phthiotis, which now also received from him the name of Achaia.^[2][3][4] Servius alone calls Achaeus a son of Jupiter (Zeus) and Pithia, which is probably miswritten for Phthia,^[5][6] compare the account of Clement.^[7]

Genealogy of Hellenes

Genealogy of Hellenes

Prometheus   Clymene   Epimetheus   Pandora                                                                     Deucalion   Pyrrha                                                             Hellen                                                                 Dorus   Xuthus   Aeolus                                                       Achaeus   Ion

References

1. Catalogue of Women fr. 10a.20–4.
2. Pausanias, 7.1.2
3. Strabo, 8.7
4. Bibliotheca 1.7.3
5. Servius on Aeneid 1. 242 (Latin)
6. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Achaeus (1)", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, p. 8
7. Clement, Recognitions, 10. 21, where Phthia, daughter of Phoroneus, is given as the mother of Achaeus by Jupiter (Zeus)

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.