Acastus
Role: mythological figure · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 18
In Book 1, Acastus appears with his horses in a painting of the Argonauts who sailed with Jason to Colchi. Book 3 mentions games Acastus established in memory of his father, alongside a reference to Menelaus and Proteus.
In Book 5, Iphiclus won a race and received the victor’s crown from Acastus. By Book 6, Acastus was holding funeral games for his father at the Isthmus when Glaucus was killed by horses.
Relationship record
Life events
- Iphiclus won the race and received the victor’s crown from Acastus.(Book 5 · Chapter 17)
- With: Iphiclus
- “and Acastus is holding out the crown to the victor, who was Iphiclus”
- Glaucus was killed by horses during Acastus’s funeral games.(Book 6 · Chapter 20 · 📍 the Isthmus)
- With: Glaucus (son of Sisyphus)
- “Glaucus the son of Sisyphus, who they say was killed by horses, when Acastus was holding the funeral games to his father”
Book 1 · Chapter 18
- with Jason (Acastus is depicted in Micon's painting of the Argonauts who sailed with Jason.) “and by Micon of the Argonauts who sailed with Jason to Colchi: in this painting Acastus and his horses stand out remarkably well.”
Book 3 · Chapter 18
- with Menelaus (The passage juxtaposes the games of Acastus with the story of Menelaus and Proteus, without stating a direct relationship.) “the games established by Acastus in memory of his father, and what we read in the Odyssey about Menelaus and the Egyptian Proteus”
Book 5 · Chapter 17
- with Iphiclus (interaction) “Acastus is holding out the crown to the victor, who was Iphiclus”
Book 6 · Chapter 20
- with Glaucus (son of Sisyphus) (Acastus held funeral games at which Glaucus was killed) “Glaucus the son of Sisyphus, who they say was killed by horses, when Acastus was holding the funeral games to his father”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.