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

(Ἀρκείσιος), a son of Zeus and Euryodia, husband of Chalcomedusa and father of Laertes. (Hom. Od. 14.182, 16.118; Apollod. 1.9.16; Ov. Met. 13.145; Eustath, ad Hom. p. 1796.) According to Hyginus (Hyg. Fab. 189), he was a son of Cephalus and Procris, and according to others, of Cephalus and a she-bear. (Eustatll. ad Hom. p. 1961, comp. p. 1756.)

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