A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Ἄκτωρ).

1. A son of Deion and Diomede, the daughter of Xuthus. He was thus a brother of Asteropeia, Acnetus, Phylacus, and Cephalus, and husband of Aegina, father of Menoetius, and grandfather of Patroclus. (Apollod. 1.9.4, 16, 3.10.8; Pind. O. 9.75; Hom. Il. 11.785, 16.14.)