Acestor

Acestor

Acestor (Ancient Greek: Ἀκέστωρ), meaning "healer" or "saviour", was the name of several figures in Classical mythology and history:

Mythological

Historical

  • Acestor, a sculptor mentioned by Pausanias as having executed a statue of Alexibius,[9] a native of Heraea in Arcadia, who had gained a victory in the pentathlon at the Olympic Games. He was born at Knossos, or at any rate exercised his profession there for some time.[10] He had a son named Amphion, who was also a sculptor, and had studied under Ptolichus of Corcyra;[11] so that Acestor must have been a contemporary of the latter, who flourished around Olympiad 82 (452 BC).[12]

References

  1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acestor (1)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 7, archived from the original on 2012-12-02, retrieved 2007-09-25{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 37
  3. Schol. ad loc.
  4. Vespae. 1216
  5. Phot. and Suda s.v. Σάκας
  6. Whiston, Robert (1867), "Acestor (2)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 7, archived from the original on 2012-12-02, retrieved 2007-09-25{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  7. Pausanias, vi. 17. § 2
  8. Pausanias, x. 15. § 4
  9. Pausanias, vi. 3. § 2
  10. Mason, Charles Peter (1867), "Acestor (3)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, p. 7, archived from the original on 2012-12-02, retrieved 2007-09-25{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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