Actor
mythological figure · 5 works · 5 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Volumnius
spoken of as
1 expressionVolumnius“Actor”1 mention
Brutus (Greek)
Among the prisoners there was a certain Volumnius, an actor, and Saculio, a buffoon, to whom Brutus paid no attention;
in the texts
Seven Against Thebes
Theban defender stationed by Eteocles against Parthenopaeus, brother of Hyperbius.
Actor, brother of him I named before.
Exit Actor.
Orations
One of the Lemnians, brought in by Euripides as an acquaintance who visits Philoctetes.
Euripides himself, at any rate, brings in Actor, one of the Lemnians, as coming to Philoctetes as an acquaintance and one who had often met with him.
Olympian
Father of Menoetius.
Locrus gave him a city and a people to govern, and strangers came to him from Argos and Thebes, from Arcadia and Pisa, But among the settlers he chiefly honored the son of Actor and Aegina, Menoetius, whose son went with the Atreidae to the plain of Teuthras, and stood alone beside Achilles, when Telephus turned to flight the mighty Danaans, and attacked their ships beside the sea, to reveal to a …
Brutus
An actor taken prisoner after the first battle who, along with the buffoon Saculio, is denounced for mocking speech and subsequently executed; distinct from Brutus's philosopher-companion Publius Volumnius.
Among the prisoners there was a certain Volumnius, an actor, and Saculio, a buffoon, to whom Brutus paid no attention;