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ΟΙΧΑΛΙΑ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Αναφορές του Ομήρου για την Οιχαλία: Ιλ. Β 596, 730, Οδ. θ 224, φ 13-33.
ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
Γιος του Ανδραίμονα και της Γόργης, πατέρας του Αίμονα, ανέλαβε την εξουσία μετά το θάνατο του πατέρα του και οδήγησε τους Αιτωλούς με 40 πλοία στον Τρωικό Πόλεμο (Ιλ. Β 638, Οδ. ξ 499).
Thoas. The son of Andraemon and Gorge. He was king of Calydon and Pleuron, in Aetolia, and sailed with forty ships against Troy.
Thoas: Perseus Project
ΑΙΤΩΛΙΑ (Αρχαία περιοχή) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Γιος του Αρη, βασιλιάς της Αιτωλίας, πατέρας της Μαρπήσσης (Ιλ. Ι 557).
ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
Γιος του Πορθέα και της Ευρύτης (Ιλ. Ξ 117), τον οποίον πρώτον ο Βάκχος έμαθε την καλλιέργεια της αμπέλου και την οινοποιϊαν (Υγιν. Μυθ. 129). Είχε αποκτήσει παιδιά: με την Αλθαία, κόρη του Θέστιου και της Ευρυθέμιδος, τον Μελέαγρο (Ιλ. Ι 555), Μελάνιππο, Κλύμενο και την Γόργη, σύζυγο του Ανδραίμονα, με την Περίβοια, κόρη του Ιππονόου, τον Τυδέα. Αναφέρονται και άλλα παιδιά του, ο Θυρεύς, ο Περίφας, ο Αγέλαος, η Ευρυμέδη, η Μελανίππη, η Μοθώνη και η Δηϊάνειρα (Απολλόδ. 1,8,1). Επειδή παρέλειψε την Αρτεμη σε θυσίες στους θεούς, αυτή έστειλε στη χώρα του τον περίφημο από το έπος Καλυδώνιο κάπρο.
Oineus. A king of Calydon in Aetolia, son of Portheus or of Porthaon. He married Althaea, the daughter of Thestius, by whom he had, among other children, Meleager and Deianira. After Althaea's death, he married Periboea or Melanippe, the daughter of Hipponous, by whom he became the father of Tydeus, though others made Tydeus his son by his own daughter Gorge. In a sacrifice which Oeneus made to all the gods, upon reaping the rich produce of his fields, he forgot Artemis, and the goddess, to revenge this neglect, sent a wild boar to lay waste the territory of Calydon. The animal was at last killed, by Meleager and the neighbouring princes of Greece, in a celebrated chase known by the name of the chase of the Calydonian boar.
After the death of Meleager, Oeneus was dethroned and imprisoned
by the sons of his brother Agrius. Diomedes, having come secretly from the city
of Argos, slew all the sons of Agrius but two, who escaped to the Peloponnesus;
and then, giving the throne of Calydon to Audraemon, son-in-law of Oeneus, who
was himself now too old to reign, led the latter with him to Argolis. Oeneus was
afterwards slain by the two sons of Agrius, who had fled into the Peloponnesus.
Diomedes buried him in Argolis, on the spot where the city of Oenoe, called after
Oeneus, was subsequently erected. Oeneus is said to have been the first that received
the vine from Bacchus. The god taught him how to cultivate it, and the juice of
the grape was called after his name (oinos, "wine").
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Altaea (Althaia), a daughter of the Aetolian king Thestius and Eurythemis, and sister of Leda, Hypermnestra, Iphiclus, Euippus, &c. She was married to Oeneus, king of Calydon, by whom she became the mother of Troxeus, Thyreus, Clymenus, and Meleager, and of two daughters, Gorge and Deianeira (Apollod. i. 7.10, 8.1). Apollodorus states, that according to some, Meleager was regarded as the fruit of her intercourse with Ares, and that she was mother of Deianeira by Dionvsus (Comp. Hygin. Fab. 120, 171, 174). Althaea is especially celebrated in ancient story on account of the tragic fate of her son Meleager, who also became the cause of her death. Some say that she hung herself, others in that she killed herself with a dagger (Apollod. i. 8.3; Ov. Met. viii. 445, &c.).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Ο Αγριος, γιος του Πορθέα και της Ευρύτης, αδελφός του Οινέα και του Μέλανος (Ιλ. Ξ 117), με τη βοήθεια των γιων του εκθρόνισε τον βασιλιά Οινέα και κατέλαβε την εξουσία. Τον σκότωσε ο Διομήδης, εγγονός του Οινέα, ο οποίος τάφηκε στο μέρος που αργότερα οι Αργείοι ονόμασαν Οινόη (Παυσ. 2.25.2).
Agrius (Agrios), a son of Porthaon and Euryte, and brother of Oeneus, king of Calydon in Aetolia, Alcathous, Melas, Leucopeus, and Sterope. He was father of six sons, of whom Thersites was one. These sons of Agrius deprived Oeneus of his kingdom, and gave it to their father; but all of them, with the exception of Thersites, were slain by Diomedes, the grandson of Oeneus (Apollod. i. 7.10, 8.5, &c.). Apollodorus places these events before the expedition of the Greeks against Troy, while Hyginus (Fab, 175, comp. 242 and Antonin. Lib. 37) states, that Diomedes, when he heard, after the fall of Troy, of the misfortune of his grandfather Oeneus, hastened back and expelled Agrius, who then put an end to his own life; according to others, Agrius and his sons were slain by Diomedes (Comp. Paus. ii. 25.2; Ov. Heroid. ix. 153).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Γαμβρός του Οινέα και πατέρας του Θόαντος (Ιλ. Β 638). Σε εκείνον παρέδωσε την εξουσία ο Διομήδης, αφού σκότωσε τον Αγριο, αδελφό του παππού του Οινέα. Τον Ανδραίμονα σκότωσαν δύο γιοι του Αγριου στην Πελοπόννησο, όπου είχε πάει και όπου είχαν καταφύγει και αυτοί για να γλυτώσουν από τον Διομήδη.
Andraemon.The husband of Gorge, the daughter of the Calydonian king Oeneus, and father of Thoas. When Diomedes delivered Oeneus, who had been imprisoned by the sons of Agrius, he gave the kingdom to Andraemon, since Oeneus was already too old (Apollod. i. 8.1 and 6; Hom. Il. ii. 638; Paus. v. 3.5). Antoninus Liberalis (37) represents Oeneus as resuming the government after his liberation. The tomb of Andraemon, together with that of his wife Gorge, was seen at Amphissa in the time of Pausanias (x. 38.3). Apollodorus (ii. 8.3) calls Oxylus a son of Andraemon, which might seem to allude to a different Andraemon from the one we are here speaking of; but there is evidently some-mistake here; for Pausanias and Strabo (x.) speak of Oxylus as the son of Haemon, who was a son of Thoas, so that the Oxylus in Apollodorus must be a great-grandson of Andraemon.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Oct 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Gorge, a daughter of Oeneus and Althaea, and the wife of Andraemon. When Artemis metamorphosed her sisters into birds, on account of their unceasing lamentations about their brother Meleager, Gorge and Deianeira alone were spared. (Anton. lib. 2; Ov. Met. viii. 532 ; Apollod. i. 8.3, 5.) According to Apollodorus, she became the mother of Tydeus by her own father. Her son Thoas led the Aetolians against Troy. One of the Danaides likewise bore the name of Gorge. (Apollod. ii. 1.5.)
Andraemonides (Andraimonides), a patronymic from Andraemon, frequently given to his son Thoas. (Hom. Il. ii. 638, vii. 168, &c.)
Γιος του Οινέως ή του Αρη και της Αλθαίας (Ιλ. Β 642, Ι 550 κ.ε.). Πήρε μέρος στην Αργοναυτική εκστρατεία και στο κυνήγι του Καλυδώνιου κάπρου, τον οποίο και σκότωσε. Στη διαμάχη, που ξέσπασε ανάμεσα στους Αιτωλούς και τους Κουρήτες για την κεφαλή και το δέρμα του κάπρου, όσο συμμετείχε ο Μελέαγρος οι Αιτωλοί είχαν επιτυχίες, όμως, από τη στιγμή που αποσύρθηκε πικραμένος από τις κατάρες της μητέρας του, οι Κουρήτες πολιόρκησαν την Καλυδώνα. Τελικά, πείσθηκε να επιστρέψει και να τους πολεμήσει (Ιλ. Ι 527 κ.ε.). Εδωσε το δέρμα του κάπρου στην Αταλάντη, η οποία επίσης συμμετείχε στο κυνήγι.
Meleagrus, (Meleagros). The son of Oeneus of Calydon and Althaea, husband of Cleopatra, one of the most celebrated heroes of Greek legend. He took part in the expedition of the Argonauts, and brought about the celebrated chase of the Calydonian boar, to which he invited the most renowned heroes of the time, Admetus, Amphiaraus, Iason, Idas, Lynceus, Castor and Pollux, Nestor , Theseus, and Pirithous, Peleus, Telamon, and others. Many lost their lives, till at last Meleager slew the monster. However, Artemis thereupon stirred up a furious strife between the Calydonians and the Curetes who dwelt at Pleuron, about the head and skin of the boar, the prize of victory. The Calydonians were victorious as long as Meleager fought at their head; but when he slew the brother of his mother, she invoked a terrible curse on him, and he retired sullenly from the fray. The Curetes immediately forced the Calydonians to retreat, and were already beginning to climb the walls of Calydon, when, at the height of their distress, he yielded to the prayers of his wife, and again joined in the fight to ward off destruction from the city; but he did not return alive, for the Erinys had accomplished the curse of his mother. According to a later legend, the Moerae appeared to his mother on the seventh day after his birth, and announced to her that her son would have to die when a log of wood on the hearth was consumed by the flame; whereupon Althaea immediately snatched the log from the fire and concealed it in a chest. At the Calydonian Hunt, Meleager fell in love with Atalante, and gave her (who had inflicted the first wound) the prize, the skin of the animal which he had killed. He slew the brothers of his mother, the sons of Thestius, when they were lying in wait for the virgin to rob her of the boar's hide. Overcome by pain at the death of her brothers, Althaea set fire to the log, and Meleager died a sudden death. His mother and wife hanged themselves; his sisters wept so bitterly for Meleager, that Artemis for pity changed them into guineahens (meleagrides). Legends relate that even in the nether world Meleager retained his dauntless courage; for when Heracles descended to Hades, all the shades fled before him except Meleager and Medusa.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
Cleopatra (Kleopatra), a daughter of Idas and Marpessa, and wife of Meleager (Hom. Il. ix. 556). is said to have hanged herself after her husband's death, or to have died of grief. Her real name was Alcyone. (Apollod. i. 8.3; Hygin. Fab. 174.)
Alcyone. A surname of Cleopatra, the wife of Meleager, who died with grief at her husband being killed by Apollo. (Hom. Il. ix. 562; Eustath. ad Hom. p. 776; Hygin. Fab. 174.)
P. Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses (ed. Brookes More)
Book 8
Meleager & Atalanta: Perseus Project
Meleager & Atalanta: Various WebPages
Γιος του Αγήνορα και της Επικάστης, σύζυγος της Ευρύτης , κόρης του Ιπποδάμαντα. Ο Ομηρος αναφέρει τρεις γιους του: Οινεύς, Αγριος, Μέλας (Ιλ. Ξ 115). Ο Απολλόδωρος προσθέτει και τον Αλκάθιο (Απολλόδ. 4,7,7).
Porthaon. The son of Agenor and Epicaste. He was king of Pleuron and Calydon, in Aetolia, and married Euryte, by whom he had Agrius, Alcathous, Leucopeus, Melas, Oeneus, and Sterope.
Porthaon: Perseus Encyclopedia
Γιος του Οινέα και της Περίβοιας (ή Γοργης ή Αλθαίας) και πατέρας του Διομήδη (Ιλ. Β 406, Ξ 117, Ψ 472). Εκστράτευσε στο πλευρό του Πολυνείκη κατά της Θήβας κι εκεί φονεύθηκε από τον Μελάνιππο (Ιλ. Δ 384, Ε 801).
Εφυγε από την Καλυδώνα και εγκαταστάθηκε στο Αργος, όπου παντρεύτηκε την Δηϊπύλη, κόρη του Αδραστου και αναφέρεται πλέον ως ήρωας του Αργειακού μυθολογικού κύκλου. Λένε έφυγε επειδή σκότωσε κάποιον δικό του. Παραλλλαγές αναφέρουν: τον Μέλανα ή Λυκοπέα ή Αλκάθιο, αδελφό του πατέρα του. Τα παιδιά του Μέλανα, που επαναστάτησαν κατά του Οινέα. Τον αδελφό του Ωλενία ή Μελάνιππο.
Tudeus. The son of Oeneus, king of Calydon, and Periboea. He was obliged to leave Calydon in consequence of some murder which he had committed, but which is differently described by different authors. He fled to Adrastus at Argos, who purified him from the murder, and gave him his daughter Deipyle in marriage, by whom he became the father of Diomedes, who is hence frequently called Tydides. He accompanied Adrastus in the expedition against Thebes, where he was wounded by Melanippus, who, however, was slain by him. When Tydeus lay on the ground wounded, Athene appeared to him with a remedy which she had received from Zeus, and which was to make him immortal. This, however, was prevented by a stratagem of Amphiaraus, who hated Tydeus, for he cut off the head of Melanippus and brought it to Tydeus, who divided it and ate the brain, or devoured some of the flesh. Athene, seeing this, shuddered, and left Tydeus to his fate. He consequently died, and was buried by Macon.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΠΛΕΥΡΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Αιτωλός από την Πλευρώνα, τον οποίο είχε νικήσει ο Νέστορας, όταν ήταν νέος, στην πάλη στους αγώνες προς τιμήν του νεκρού Αμαρυγκέα (Ιλ. Ψ 635).
ΑΙΤΩΛΙΑ (Αρχαία περιοχή) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Οι Αιτωλοί συμμετείχαν στον πόλεμο της Τροίας με 40 πλοία και ηγεμόνα τον Θόαντα (Ιλ. Β 638, Β 644). Αιτωλικές πόλεις, που αναφέρονται στον Ομηρικό Κατάλογο των Νεών: 1. Καλυδών, 2. Πλευρών, 3, Ώλενος, 4. Πυλλήνη. 5. Χαλκίς.
ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
Η Καλυδών πήρε μέρος στον πόλεμο και περιλαμβάνεται στον Ομηρικό Κατάλογο των Νεών, την καλεί δε "πετρήεσσαν" (Ιλ. Β 640), "αιπεινήν" (Ιλ Ν 217, Ξ 116), "ερρανήν" (Ιλ. Ι 531), εύφορη και πλουσία (Ιλ Ι 577), "μέγα άστυ" (Ιλ Ι 589), είχε "τέμενος περικαλλές" (Ιλ. Ι 577) και ότι την έκαψαν οι Κουρήτες, όταν χολώθηκε ο Μελέαγρος με τους Αιτωλούς του που αμύνονταν στην πολιορκία των Κουρητών (Ιλ. Ι 580, 589).
ΠΛΕΥΡΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Η Πλερώνα πήρε μέρος στον Τρωικό πόλεμο και περιλαμβάνεται στον Ομηρικό Κατάλογο των Νεών (Ιλ. Β 639).
ΠΥΛΗΝΗ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΟΣ
Η Πυλήνη πήρε μέρος στον Τρωικό πόλεμο και περιλαμβάνεται στον Ομηρικό Κατάλογο των Νεών (Ιλ. Β 639).
ΧΑΛΚΙΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΝΑΥΠΑΚΤΟΣ
Η Χαλκίδα, πόλη της Αιτωλίας, πήρε μέρος στον Τρωικό πόλεμο και περιλαμβάνεται στον Ομηρικό Κατάλογο των Νεών (Ιλ. Β 640).
ΩΛΕΝΟΣ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Η Ωλενος πήρε μέρος στον Τρωικό πόλεμο και περιλαμβάνεται στον Ομηρικό Κατάλογο των Νεών (Ιλ. Β 639).
ΑΙΤΩΛΙΑ (Αρχαία περιοχή) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Πατέρας του Κλυτομήδη (Ιλ. Ψ 634).
Γιος του Ηνοπος, που είχε ηττηθεί από το Νέστορα σε αγώνα πηγμής (Ιλ. Ψ 634).
Αιτωλός, πατέρας του Περίφαντα (Ιλ. Ε 843).
ΚΑΛΥΔΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΙΕΡΑ ΠΟΛΙΣ ΜΕΣΟΛΟΓΓΙΟΥ
Γιος του Πορθέως, αδελφός του Αγριου και του Οινέως (Ιλ. Ξ 117).
ΑΓΡΙΝΙΟΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Γιος του Αγρίου, ο πιο άσχημος των Ελλήνων στον πόλεμο της Τροίας, κουτσός, καμπούρης και θρασύς. Ηταν μισητός τόσο στον Αχιλλέα όσο και στον Οδυσσέα για την αυθάδη συμπεριφορά του (Ιλ. Β 212-271). Ο Ομηρος τον αποκαλεί "ακριτόμυθο" (Ιλ. Β 246).
The son of Agrius. He was the most deformed man and impudent talker among the Greeks at Troy. According to the later poets he was killed by Achilles, because he had ridiculed him for lamenting the death of Penthesilea, queen of the Amazons.
Thersites : Perseus Project
ΑΙΤΩΛΙΑ (Αρχαία περιοχή) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Αιτωλός, που φονεύθηκε από τον Εκτορα (Ιλ. Ε 706).
Γιος του Οχησίου, που φονεύθηκε από τον Αρη (Ιλ. Ε 842).
Αιτωλός, που φονεύθηκε από τον Εκτορα (Ιλ. Ε 706).
ΑΧΕΛΩΟΣ (Ποταμός) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Κατά τον Ομηρο ήταν δύο στον αριθμό (Οδ. μ 52), ενώ κατά τους μεταγενέστερους συγγραφείς ήταν τρεις ή τέσσερις. Ζούσαν μεταξύ της Αιαίας νήσου και της Σκύλλας και με την εξαίσια φωνή τους προσέλκυαν προς αυτές τους παραπλέοντες και τους φόνευαν (Οδ. μ 39 & 52).
(Seirenes). The daughters of Phorcys, according to later legend of Achelous, and one of the Muses. In Homer there are two, in later writers, three, called Ligea, Leucosia, and Parthenope, or Aglaopheme, Molpe, and Thelxiepea. Homer describes them as dwelling between Circe's isle and Scylla, on an island, where they sit in a flowery meadow, surrounded by the mouldering bones of men, and with their sweet song allure and infatuate those that sail by. Whoever listens to their song and draws near them never again beholds wife and child. They know everything that happens on earth. When Odysseus sailed past, he had stopped up the ears of his companions with wax, while he had made them bind him to the mast, that he might hear their song without danger. Orpheus protected the Argonauts from their spell by his own singing. As they were only to live till some one had sailed past unmoved by their song, they cast themselves into the sea, on account either of Odysseus or of Orpheus, and were changed to sunken rocks. When the adventures of Odysseus came to be localized on the Italian and Sicilian shore, the seat of the Sirens was transferred to the neighbourhood of Naples and Sorrento, to the three rocky and uninhabited islets called the Sirenusae, the Sirenum scopuli of Vergil, or to Capri, or to the Sicilian promontory of Pelorum. There they were said to have settled, after vainly searching the whole earth for the lost Persephone, their former playmate in the meadows by the Achelous; and later legend also assigned this at the time when they in part assumed a winged shape. They were represented as great birds with the heads of women, or with the upper part of the body like that of a woman, with the legs of birds, and with or without wings. At a later period they were sometimes regarded as retaining their original character of fair and cruel tempters and deceivers. But they are more generally represented as singers of the dirge for the dead, and they were hence frequently placed as an ornament on tombs; or as symbols of the magic of beauty, eloquence, and song, on which account their sculptured forms were seen on the funeral monuments of fair women and girls, and of orators and poets-- for instance, on those of Isocrates and Sophocles. The National Museum at Athens contains several examples of stone Sirens, not as reliefs, but as separate figures; and a funeral monument of this type may be noticed on a vase in the British Museum, where the Siren is standing on a pillar and playing the lyre.
This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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Achelous (Acheloios), the god of the river Achelous which was the greatest, and according to tradition, the most ancient among the rivers of Greece. He with 3000 brother-rivers is described as a son of Oceanus and Thetys (Hes. Theog. 340), or of Oceanus and Gaea, or lastly of Helios and Gaea (Natal. Com. vii. 2). The origin of the river Achelous is thus described by Servius (ad Virg. Georg. i. 9; Acn. viii. 300): When Achelous on one occasion had lost his daughters, the Sirens, and in his grief invoked his mother Gaea, she received him to her bosom, and on the spot where she received him, she caused the river bearing his name to gush forth. Other accounts about the origin of the river and its name are given by Stephanus of Byzantium, Strabo (x.), and Plutarch (De Flum. 22). Achelous the god was a competitor with Heracles in the suit for Deianeira, and fought with him for the bride. Achelous was conquered in the contest, but as he possessed the power of assuming various forms, he metamorphosed himself first into a serpent and then into a bull. But in this form too he was conquered by Heracles, and deprived of one of his horns, which however he recovered by giving up the horn of Amalthea (Ov. Met. ix. 8, &c.; Apollod. i. 8.1, ii. 7.5). Sophocles (Trachin. 9, &c.) makes Deianeira relate these occurrences in a somewhat different manner. According to Ovid (Met. ix. 87), the Naiads changed the horn which Heracles took from Achelous into the horn of plenty. When Theseus returned home from the Calydonian chase he was invited and hospitably received by Achelous, who related to him in what manner he had created the islands called Echinades (Ov. Met. viii. 547, &c.). The numerous wives and descendants of Achelous are spoken of in separate articles. Strabo (x.) proposes a very ingenious interpretation of the legends about Achelous, all of which according to him arose from the nature of the river itself. It resembled a bull's voice in the noise of the water; its windings and its reaches gave rise to the story about his forming himself into a serpent and about his horns; the formation of islands at the mouth of the river requires no explanation. His conquest by Heracles lastly refers to the embankments by which Heracles confined the river to its bed and thus gained large tracts of land for cultivation, which are expressed by the horn of plenty. Others derive the legends about Achelous from Egypt, and describe him as a second Nilus. But however this may be, he was from the earliest times considered to be a great divinity throughout Greece (Hom. Il. xxi. 194), and was invoked in prayers, sacrifices, on taking oaths, &c. (Ephorus ap. Macrob. v. 18), and the Dodonean Zeus usually added to each oracle he gave, the command to offer sacrifices to Achelous. This wide extent of the worship of Achelous also accounts for his being regarded as the representative of sweet water in general, that is, as the source of all nourishment (Virg. Georg. i. 9). The contest of Achelous with Heracles was represented on the throne of Amyclae (Paus. iii. 18.9), and in the treasury of the Megarians at Olympia there was a statue of him made by Dontas of cedar-wood and gold (Paus. vi. 19.9). On several coins of Acarnania the god is represented as a bull with the head of an old man.
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
ΠΛΕΥΡΩΝ (Αρχαία πόλη) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Οι Κουρήτες κατοικούσαν τη χώρα πριν τον Τρωικό πόλεμο, οπότε εκδιώχθηκαν από τους Αιτωλούς.
Ο Ομηρος αναφέρει μάχη μεταξύ των Κουρητών και των Αιτωλών στην Καλυδώνα (Ιλ. Ι 529, βλ. και Ιλ. Ι 549 & 589). Για τους Κουρήτες κάνει λόγο κι ο Στράβων (Στράβ. 10,3,1).
ΑΧΕΛΩΟΣ (Ποταμός) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Λέγεται: κρείων. Ονομάζεται: Αχελώιος. Χαρακτηρίζεται ως ο μεγαλύτερος ποταμός. (Ιλ. Φ 194)
ΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ (Αρχαία περιοχή) ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑ
Με αυτά τα ονόματα παραδίδει τη γη των Ακαρνάνων (Οδ. ω 378, Ιλ. Β 635) η οποία ήταν ενωμένη με τη νήσο Λευκάδα. Πόλη 1. Νήρικος
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