Editing Acastus (section)

==Mythology==
After the return of the Argonauts, Acastus's sisters were manipulated by [[Medea]] to cut their father Pelias in pieces and boil them. Acastus, when he heard this, buried his father, and drove Jason and Medea from Iolcus (and, according to [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], his sisters also),<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 7.11</ref> and instituted funeral games in honor of his father.<ref>[[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.27&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=1:chapter=9&highlight=Acastus 1.9.27]; Hyginus, ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#Preface#24 24] & [https://topostext.org/work/206#Preface#273 273]; Pausanias, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+3.18.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=3:chapter:18&highlight=Acastus 3.18.6], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+6.20.19&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=6:chapter=20:highlight=Acastus 6.20.19] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+5.17.10&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0160:book=5:chapter=17&highlight=Acastus 5.17.10]</ref><ref name="DGRBM">''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'' by William Smith (1867). </ref>  He thereafter became king of Iolcus.

Acastus purified [[Peleus]] of the murder of [[Eurytion|King Eurytion]] of [[Phthia]].<ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]] ''[https://topostext.org/work/141#11.392 11.409] </ref> Acastus's wife (variously named in mythology; often Astydamia, but sometimes Hippolyte, daughter of [[Cretheus]])<ref name="OCD" /> fell in love with Peleus but he scorned her. Bitter, she sent a messenger to [[Antigone (daughter of Eurytion)|Antigone]], Peleus's wife and daughter of Eurytion, to tell her that Peleus was to marry Acastus's daughter, [[Sterope]].

Astydamia then told Acastus that Peleus had tried to rape her.<ref>[[Pindar]], ''Nemean Odes'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Pind.+N.+4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0162 4.57]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+3.13.2&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:book=3:chapter=13&highlight=Acastus 3.13.2]</ref> Acastus took Peleus on a hunting trip and hid his sword while he slept, then abandoned him on [[Pelion|Mt. Pelion]] to be killed by [[centaur]]s.  The wise centaur [[Chiron]] (or the god [[Hermes]])<ref name="DGRBM" /> returned Peleus' sword and Peleus managed to escape. With [[Jason]] and the [[Dioscuri]], Peleus sacked Iolcus, dismembered Astydamia (and, in some accounts, Acastus himself), and marched his army between the pieces. Their kingdom later fell to Jason's son [[Thessalus]].