Acastus

First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60

Life events

• Acastus hid a knife so Peleus might be killed by the Centaurs.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60 · 📍 Pelion)
  • With: Peleus
  • “to keep back himself, but to hide beyond guessing the beautiful knife which the very famous Lame One had made for him, that in seeking it alone over steep Pelion, he (Peleus) might be slain forthwith by the mountain-bred Centaurs.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 41–60

• married with the wife of Acastus “to lie with her against her will’, and not like Hesiod who recounts at length the story of Peleus and the wife of Acastus.”

Also listed in Other Figures — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Hesiod and Homerica. Made with Rho MD.