Acamas
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Embassy
A son of Theseus who, according to legend, received the Amphipolis district as his wife's dowry, cited as the mythic root of Athens' territorial claim.
Now the facts about our original acquisition both of the district and of the place called Ennea Hodoi, and the story of the sons of Theseus, one of whom, Acamas, is said to have received this district as the dowry of his wife—all this was fitting to the occasion then, and was given with the utmost exactness, but now I suppose I must be brief;
The Funeral Speech
Son of Theseus who, according to Homer's epics, sailed for Troy to save his mother Aethra; ancestral exemplar for the Acamantidae.
The Acamantidae did not fail to recall the epics in which Homer says that Acamas sailed for Troy for the sake of his mother Aethra.
Heracleidae
Brother of Demophon, son of Theseus, mentioned as accompanying Demophon to the altar.
here he comes in person, in hot haste, and Acamas his brother, to hear what thou hast to say.