Acragas (mythology)

In Greek mythology, Acragas (or Akragas), was said to be a son of Zeus and the Oceanid Asterope, and the eponym of the town of Acragas (modern Agrigento) in Sicily.^[1]

Notes

↑ Smith, "Acragas"; Stephanus of Byzantium, s. v. Akragantes (Meineke, p. 74, Billerbeck, p. 121).

References

Billerbeck, Margarethe, Stephani Byzantii Ethnica: Volumen I: Α–Γ, Walter de Gruyter, 2006. ISBN 9783110174496.
Meineke, August, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorvm quae svpersvnt, Berolini: Impensis G. Reimeri, 1849. Internet Archive.
Smith, William; Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). "Acragas"

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