Acmon

There are several characters named Acmon or Akmon (Ancient Greek: Ἄκμων) in Greek mythology:

Acmon (Dactyl), one of the mythical race of Dactyls.[1]
Acmon of Phrygia, Phrygian king who gave his name to the district known as Acmonia.[2]
Acmon (Cercops), a mischievous forest creature who lived in Thermopylae or on Euboea but roamed the world and might turn up anywhere mischief was afoot
Acmon, a companion of Diomedes in Italy. He was turned into a bird.[3]
Acmon, the Aenead, son of Clytius (son of Aeolus), a friend of Aeneas in Roman mythology. Together with his father, they followed Aeneas in his exile after the fall of Troy.[4]

Notes

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Strabo, Geographica 10.3.22
William Smith. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. s.v. Mygdon
Ovid, Metamorphoses 14.484

Virgil, Aeneid 10.129

References

Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses translated by Brookes More (1859-1942). Boston, Cornhill Publishing Co. 1922. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Ovidius Naso, Metamorphoses. Hugo Magnus. Gotha (Germany). Friedr. Andr. Perthes. 1892. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Aeneid. Theodore C. Williams. trans. Boston. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1910. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Publius Vergilius Maro, Bucolics, Aeneid, and Georgics. J. B. Greenough. Boston. Ginn & Co. 1900. Latin text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
Strabo, The Geography of Strabo. Edition by H.L. Jones. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Strabo, Geographica edited by A. Meineke. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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