Acraepheus

Acraepheus (Greek: Ἀκραιφεύς) was, in Greek mythology, a son of Apollo to whom the foundation of the town of Acraephnium, a Boeotian town on the lake Copais, was ascribed.^[1] In Acraephnium, Apollo was attached with the epithet Acraephius or Acraephiaeus by worshipers.^[2]

Acraepheus could have been father of Ptous by Euxippe.^[2][3]

See also

• List of Greek mythological figures

References

1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acraepheus", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston, MA, p. 14
2. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ακραιφία
3. Herodian, 1. 112, 377

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.