Arcesius

According to scholia on the Odyssey, Arcesius' parents were Zeus and Euryodeia;Scholia & Eustathius ad Homer, Odyssey [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain06dindgoog/page/625/mode/1up?view=theater 16.118] Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.Ovid, Metamorphoses [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Ov.+Met.+13.144&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.02.0028 13.144] Other sources make him a son of Cephalus. Aristotle in his lost work The State of the Ithacians cited a myth according to which Cephalus was instructed by an oracle to mate with the first female being he should encounter if he wanted to have offspring; Cephalus mated with a she-bear, who then transformed into a human woman and bore him a son, Arcesius.Aristotle in Etymologicum Magnum 130.21 under Arkeisios. Hyginus makes Arcesius a son of Cephalus and Procris,Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#189 189] while Eustathius and the exegetical scholia to the Iliad report a version according to which Arcesius was a grandson of Cephalus through Cillus or Celeus.Scholia ad Homer, Iliad [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain00homegoog/page/71/mode/1up?view=theater 2.173b]; Eustathius ad Iliad 2.631

Zeus made Arcesius' line one of "only sons": his only son was Laertes, whose only son was Odysseus, whose only son was Telemachus.{{Cite Odyssey|en|4|182|ref}}, {{Cite Odyssey|en|16|118}}; cf. Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.+1.9.16&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0022:boo=0:chapter=0&highlight=Arcisius 1.9.16]; Hyginus, Fabulae [https://topostext.org/work/206#173 173]. Arcesius's wife (and thus mother of Laertes) was Chalcomedusa.Scholia on Homer, Odyssey [https://archive.org/details/scholiagraecain06dindgoog/page/625/mode/1up?view=theater 16.118]; Eustathius, on Homer's Odyssey, p. 1796, 35.

Arceisiades ({{langx|grc|Ἀρκεισιάδης}}) was a patronymic from Arcesius, which Laertes as well as his son, Odysseus, is designated by.{{Cite Odyssey|en|4|755|ref}}, {{Cite Odyssey|en|24|270}}.

Of another Arcesius, an architect, Vitruvius (vii, introduction) notes: "Arcesius, on the Corinthian order proportions, and on the Ionic order temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands."

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• Homer. The Odyssey, Book XVI, in The Iliad & The Odyssey. Trans. Samuel Butler. p. 625. {{ISBN|978-1-4351-1043-4}}.

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