Editing Acoetes

{{short description|Name of four men in Greek and Roman mythology}}
'''Acoetes''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀκοίτης|Akoítēs}}, via {{langx|la|Ăcoetēs}}) was the name of four men in [[Greek mythology|Greek]] and [[Roman mythology]].
* [[Acoetes (Bacchic myth)|Acoetes]], a fisherman who helped the god [[Dionysus|Bacchus]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Smith|first=William|title=[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]|volume=1|pages=13|year=1867|editor-last=Smith|editor-first=William|contribution=Acoetes|contribution-url=http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0022.html|place=Boston, MA|author-link=William Smith (lexicographer)}}</ref>
* Acoetes, father to the [[Troy|Trojan]] priest [[Laocoön]], who warned about the [[Trojan Horse]]. As the brother of [[Anchises]], he was therefore the son of King [[Capys of Dardania]] and [[Themiste]], daughter of King [[Ilus (son of Tros)|Ilus]] of [[Troad]].<ref>[[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#135 135]</ref>
* Acoetes, an aged man who was the former squire [[Evander of Pallene|Evander]] in [[Arcadia (ancient region)|Arcadia]], before the latter emigrated to [[Italy]].<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Verg.+A.+11.30&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054 11.30]</ref>
* Acoetes, a soldier in the army of the [[Seven against Thebes]]. When this army fought the [[Thebes, Greece|Thebes]] for the first time on the plain, a fierce battle took place at the gates of the city. During these fights Agreus, from Calydon, cut off the arm of the Theban Phegeus. The severed limb fell to the ground while the hand still held the sword. Acoetes, who came forward, was so terrified of that arm that he hit it with his own sword.<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' 8.428 ff.</ref>

== See also ==
* {{portal-inline|Ancient Greece}}
* {{portal-inline|Myths}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
* [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus'' translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. [https://topostext.org/work/206 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|The Thebaid]]'' translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1928. [https://topostext.org/work/149 Online version at the Topos Text Project.]
* [[Statius]], ''The Thebaid. Vol I–II''. John Henry Mozley. London: William Heinemann; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 1928. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2008.01.0498 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* [[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]''. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0054%3Abook%3D1%3Acard%3D1 Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.]
* [[Virgil]], ''Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics''. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0055 Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library].

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