Acraepheus

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Acraepheus (Gr. Ακραιφεύς) was in Greek mythology a son of Apollo, to whom the foundation of the Boeotian town of Acraephia was ascribed.^[1] Apollo, who was wor­shipped in that place, derived from it the epithet of Acraephius or Acraephiaeus.^[2][3]

[edit] References

1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), “Acraepheus”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, pp. 14 
2. ^ Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ακραιφία
3. ^ Pausanias, ix. 23. § 3, 40. § 2

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).