Arcesius
Template:Short description In Greek mythology, Arcesius, Arceisius, Arkeisios or Arcisius (Template:Langx) was the son of either Zeus or Cephalus, and king in Ithaca.
MythologyEdit
According to scholia on the Odyssey, Arcesius' parents were Zeus and Euryodeia;<ref>Scholia & Eustathius ad Homer, Odyssey 16.118</ref> Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.<ref>Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.144</ref> Other sources make him a son of Cephalus. Aristotle in his lost work The State of the Ithacians cited a myth according to which Cephalus was instructed by an oracle to mate with the first female being he should encounter if he wanted to have offspring; Cephalus mated with a she-bear, who then transformed into a human woman and bore him a son, Arcesius.<ref>Aristotle in Etymologicum Magnum 130.21 under Arkeisios.</ref> Hyginus makes Arcesius a son of Cephalus and Procris,<ref>Hyginus, Fabulae 189</ref> while Eustathius and the exegetical scholia to the Iliad report a version according to which Arcesius was a grandson of Cephalus through Cillus or Celeus.<ref>Scholia ad Homer, Iliad 2.173b; Eustathius ad Iliad 2.631</ref>
Zeus made Arcesius' line one of "only sons": his only son was Laertes, whose only son was Odysseus, whose only son was Telemachus.<ref>Template:Cite Odyssey, Template:Cite Odyssey; cf. Apollodorus, 1.9.16; Hyginus, Fabulae 173.</ref> Arcesius's wife (and thus mother of Laertes) was Chalcomedusa.<ref>Scholia on Homer, Odyssey 16.118; Eustathius, on Homer's Odyssey, p. 1796, 35.</ref>
Arcesius lineEdit
Arceisiades (Template:Langx) was a patronymic from Arcesius, which Laertes as well as his son, Odysseus, is designated by.<ref>Template:Cite Odyssey, Template:Cite Odyssey.</ref>
NamesakesEdit
Of another Arcesius, an architect, Vitruvius (vii, introduction) notes: "Arcesius, on the Corinthian order proportions, and on the Ionic order temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands."
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ReferencesEdit
- Homer. The Odyssey, Book XVI, in The Iliad & The Odyssey. Trans. Samuel Butler. p. 625. Template:ISBN.