Acamas (son of Antenor)

Acamas was the brother of Crino,Pausanias, 10.27.4 Agenor,{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=219, 11.44–46|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}}Homer, Iliad 11.59, 21.545 & 579 Antheus,Tzetzes ad Lycophron, [https://topostext.org/work/860#134 134]{{AI-generated source|date=November 2024}} Archelochus,Apollodorus, E.3.34; Homer, Iliad 2.823, 12.100 & 14.464{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=61, Prologue 806–807|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}} Coön,Homer, Iliad 11.248 & 256, 19.53 Demoleon,Homer, Iliad 20.395 Eurymachus,Pausanias, 10.27.3 Glaucus,Virgil, Aeneid 6.484; Apollodorus, E.5.21, Dictys Cretensis, [https://topostext.org/work/152#4.6 4.7]; Pausanias, 10.27.3 Helicaon,Homer, Iliad 3.123 Iphidamas,Homer, Iliad 11.221 & 261; Pausanias, 4.36.4 & 5.19.4 Laodamas,Homer, Iliad 15.516{{Cite book|last=Tzetzes, John|title=Allegories of the Iliad|publisher=Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library|year=2015|isbn=978-0-674-96785-4|location=Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England|pages=283, 15.193|translator-last=Goldwyn|translator-first=Adam|translator-last2=Kokkini|translator-first2=Dimitra}} Laodocus,Homer, Iliad 4.87 Medon,Virgil, Aeneid 6.484 Polybus,Homer, Iliad 11.59 and Thersilochus.

With his brother Archelochus and his cousin Aeneas, Acamas was lieutenant of the Dardanian contingent to assist King Priam.Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+2.+823&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134:book=2&highlight=Acamas 2.823] & [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+12.100&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134:book=12&highlight=Acamas 12.100]; Apollodorus, E.3.34 Along with Aeneas and Archelochus he led one of the five divisions attacking the Argive wall in the battle for the ships. Homer's Iliad, Book 2, describes the troops of the Dardanians and its leaders:

:"The Dardanians were led by brave Aeneas, whom Aphrodite bore to Anchises, when she, goddess though she was, had lain with him upon the mountain slopes of Ida. He was not alone, for with him were the two sons of Antenor, Arkhilokhos and Akamas, both skilled in all the arts of war."Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+2.+823&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0217 2.823]. Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Samuel Butler. Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London. New York and Bombay. 1898

While in Book 14, Acamas avenged the death of his brother, who had been killed by Ajax, by slaying Promachus the Boeotian.

: "But he knew well who it was, and the Trojans were greatly vexed with grief [akhos]. Akamas then bestrode his brother's body and wounded Promakhos the Boeotian with his spear, for he was trying to drag his brother's body away. Akamas vaunted loudly over him saying, "Argive archers, braggarts that you are, toil [ponos] and suffering shall not be for us only, but some of you too shall fall here as well as ourselves. See how Promakhos now sleeps, vanquished by my spear; payment for my brother's blood has not long delayed; a man, therefore, may well be thankful if he leaves a kinsman in his house behind him to avenge his fall."Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0134%3Abook%3D14%3Acard%3D475 14.476]Homer, Iliad [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0217%3Abook%3D14%3Acard%3D475 14.475] Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Samuel Butler. Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London. New York and Bombay. 1898

Two sources tackles the versions of the myth regarding Acamas' death. He was killed possibly by Meriones of Crete, half-brother of King Idomeneus in book 16 of the Iliad, but the Acamas killed there was not specifically identified as a son of Antenor. Quintus of Smyrna describes him as having been killed by the Greek hero Philoctetes.

:"Meriones gave chase to Akamas on foot and caught him up just as he was about to mount his chariot; he drove a spear through his right shoulder so that he fell headlong from the car, and his eyes were closed in darkness."Homer. [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hom.+Il.+16.342&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0217 The Iliad of Homer. 16.342.] Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original. Samuel Butler. Longmans, Green and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, London. New York and Bombay.

:Now Poeas' son [i.e. Philoctetes] the while slew Deioneus and Acamas, Antenor's warrior son: Yea, a great host of strong men laid he low..'Quintus Smyrnaeus, [http://www.theoi.com/Text/QuintusSmyrnaeus10.html 10.168]

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