Acestor

Acestor (Ancient Greek: Ἀκέστωρ), meaning "healer" or "saviour", was the name of several figures in Classical mythology and history:

Mythological

Apollo Acestor, an epithet of the god Apollo in his role as healer or averter of evil.^[1]^[2]
Acestor, son of Ephippus, son of Poemander from Tanagra in Boeotia. He was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.^[3]

Historical

Acestor, Cretan sculptor.

Acestor Sacas, surnamed "Sacas" (Σάκας) on account of his foreign origin, was a tragic poet at Athens, and a contemporary of Aristophanes. He seems to have been either of Thracian or Mysian origin.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

Acestor, a sculptor mentioned by Pausanias as having executed a statue of Alexibius,^[9] a native of Heraea in Arcadia, who had gained a victory in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games. He was born at Knossos, or at any rate exercised his profession there for some time.^[10] He had a son named Amphion, who was also a sculptor, and had studied under Ptolichus of Corcyra;^[11] so that Acestor must have been a contemporary of the latter, who flourished around Olympiad 82 (452 BC).^[12]

References

^ Euripides, Andromache 901
^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acestor (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 7, archived from the original on 2012-12-02, retrieved 2007-09-25{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 37
^ Aristophanes Aves, 31
^ Schol. ad loc.
^ Vespae. 1216
^ Phot. and Suda s.v. Σάκας
^ Whiston, Robert (1867), "Acestor (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 7, archived from the original on 2012-12-02, retrieved 2007-09-25{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Pausanias, vi. 17. § 2
^ Pausanias, x. 15. § 4
^ Pausanias, vi. 3. § 2
^ Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Acestor (3)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 7, archived from the original on 2012-12-02, retrieved 2007-09-25{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Sources

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