Acestor

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

Mythological

• Apollo Acestor, an epithet of the god Apollo in his role as healer or averter of evil.^[1][2]
• Acestor, son of Ephippus, son of Poemander from Tanagra in Boeotia. He was killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.^[3]

Historical

• Acestor, Cretan sculptor.

• Acestor Sacas, surnamed "Sacas" (Σάκας) on account of his foreign origin, was a tragic poet at Athens, and a contemporary of Aristophanes. He seems to have been either of Thracian or Mysian origin.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

• 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. Euripides, Andromache 901
2. 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)
3. Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae 37
4. Aristophanes Aves, 31
5. Schol. ad loc.
6. Vespae. 1216
7. Phot. and Suda s.v. Σάκας
8. 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)
9. Pausanias, vi. 17. § 2
10. Pausanias, x. 15. § 4
11. Pausanias, vi. 3. § 2
12. 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)

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Acestor". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.