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- the Calydonian Boar. Acastus was the son of Pelias, then king of Iolcus, and Anaxibia (Philomache in some traditions). Acastus with his wife Astydamia...
- was to marry Acastus' daughter. As a result, Antigone hanged herself. Astydamia then told Acastus that Peleus had tried to rape her. Acastus took Peleus...
- priestess of Colchis. Finally nearing Colchis, Acastus challenges Jason's authority and fights him. Disarmed, Acastus jumps into the sea and disappears. Jason...
- learns his mother killed herself, believing him and Acastus to be dead. They rest in the bay and Acastus steals the Fleece and goes into town. Pelias kills...
- the Dorian invasion of Attica. After Codrus's death, his sons Medon and Acastus either reigned as kings, or became hereditary archons. In 753 BC the hereditary...
- Chlosyne acastus, the sagebrush checkerspot, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae that is found in North America. They range from western United States...
- mythology, Laodamia (Ancient Gr****: Λαοδάμεια Laodámeia) was the daughter of Acastus, king of Iolcus, possibly by his wife Astydamia. Laodamia became the wife...
- of Athens, dies after a reign of 20 years and is succeeded by his son Acastus. 1046 BC: King Wu of Zhou overthrows the last Shang dynasty king Di Xin...
- daughter of Bias, or Phylomache, daughter of Amphion. He was the father of Acastus, Pisidice, Alcestis, Pelopia, Hippothoe, Amphinome, Evadne, Asteropeia...
- husband about Peleus supposedly making an attempt on her in Acastus' own bed, wishing to make Acastus a partner in her plot against Peleus, when the opposite...