Actor (mythology)

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1. Actor, a king of Phthia
   Phthia
   
   Founded by Aiakos, grandfather of Achilles, it was the home of his father Peleus and his sea-nymph mother Thetis.Phthia is also an area in the 1988 Nintendo game "The Battle of Olympus," a playable level where the dragon Ladon and the god Hephaestus make their homes....
   , was said to be the son of King Deion of Phocis
   Phocis
   
   Phocis is an ancient district and a modern Prefectures of Greece of Greece, located in Central Greece, stretching from the western mountainsides of Mount Parnassus on the east to the mountain range of Vardousia on the west, upon the Gulf of Corinth....
    and Diomede
   Diomede
   
   Diomede is the name of three women in Greek mythology....
   , or of King Myrmidon and Peisidice, daughter of Aeolus
   Aeolus
   
   Aeolus , Latinized as ?olus was the ruler of the winds in Greek mythology. In fact this name was shared by three mythic characters. These three personages are often difficult to tell apart, and even the ancient mythographers appear to have been perplexed about which Aeolus was which....
   . Some say that Actor died childless, but others say that he is the father of Eurytion
   Eurytion
   
   In Greek mythology Eurytion . "widely-honoured", was a name attributed to six individuals.*The king of Phthia, son of either Actor , or of Ctimenus, or of Irus and Demonassa, and father of Antigone ....
   , his successor.
2. Actor, son of Deion and Diomede
   Diomede
   
   Diomede is the name of three women in Greek mythology....
   , daughter of Xuthus
   Xuthus
   
   In Greek mythology, Xuthus was a son of Hellen and Orseis and founder of the Achaeans and Ionians nations. He had two sons by Creusa: Ionas and Achaeus, son of Xuthus and a daughter named Diomede....
   , thus a brother of Asteropeia, Aenotus, Phylacus
   Phylacus
   
   In Greek mythology, Phylacus founded the city of Phylace, Thessaly. He was the son of Deion and Diomede, husband of Clymene, and the father of Alcimede....
   , and Cephalus
   Cephalus
   
   Cephalus is an Ancient Greek name, used both for historical persons and for characters in Greek mythology. The word cephalus is Greek for "head", perhaps used here because Cephalus was the founding "head" of a great family that includes Odysseus....
   . This Actor married Aegina
   Aegina (mythology)
   
   Aegina was a figure of Greek mythology, the nymph of the island that bears her name, Aegina, lying in the Saronic Gulf between Attica and the Peloponnesos....
   , daughter of the river god Asopus
   Asopus
   
   Asopus or As?pos is the name of five different rivers in Greece and Turkey and also in Greek mythology the name of the God of those rivers....
   , and had several children, among them Menoetius
   Menoetius
   
   In Greek mythology, Menoetius referred to several different people.#A son of Iapetus and Clymene. A glorious warrior who was insolent to Zeus....
   . Menoetius was counted among the Argonauts
   Argonauts
   
   In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
   , and was the father of Patroclus
   Patroclus
   
   In Greek mythology, as recorded in the Iliad by Homer, Patroclus, or Patroklos , son of Menoetius , was Achilles? beloved comrade and, according to some , his lover....
    (Achilles'
   Achilles
   
   In Greek mythology, Achilles was a Greeks hero of the Trojan War, the central character and the greatest warrior of Homer's Iliad, which takes for its theme ; the Wrath of Achilles....
    best friend or lover).
3. Actor, son of Azeus, son of Clymenus
   Clymenus
   
   In Greek mythology, Clymenus, or Klym?nos may refer to any number of individuals:*Clymenus was the father of Eurydice of Pylos.*Clymenus was the son of King Oeneus of Calydon and Althaea....
   , was ruler of the Minyans
   Minyans
   
   According to Greek mythology, the Minyans were an autochthonous group inhabiting the Aegean region. However, the extent to which the prehistory of the Aegean world is reflected in literary accounts of legendary peoples is subject to repeated revision....
    of Orchomenus
   Orchomenus
   
   Orchomenus is a name attributed to the following:...
   . He was father of Astyoche
   Astyoche
   
   The name Astyoche was attributed to three individuals in Greek mythology.*Daughter of Laomedon, wife of Telephus and mother of Eurypylus.*Daughter of Actor , mother of Ascalaphus with Ares....
   , who was seduced by the war-god Ares
   Ares
   
   In Greek mythology, Ares is the son of Zeus and Hera. Though often referred to as the Twelve Olympians God of warfare, he is more accurately the god of bloodlust, or slaughter personified: "Ares is apparently an ancient abstract noun meaning throng of battle, war."...
   , and bore him twin sons, named Ascalaphus
   Ascalaphus
   
   In Greek mythology, two people share the name Ascalaphus .#Son of Acheron and Orphne. He told the other gods that Persephone had eaten a pomegranate in Hades....
    and Ialmenus. These last two led the Minyan contingent to the Trojan War
   Trojan War
   
   In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
   .
4. Actor, son of Phorbas
   Phorbas
   
   In Greek mythology, Phorbas or Phorbaceus, native to Thessaloniki, was the son of Lapithes and Orsinome, and a brother of Periphas. When the people of the island of Rhodes fell victim to a plague of masses of serpents , an oracle directed them to call on a man named Phorbas....
    and Hyrmine, thus a brother of Augeas
   Augeas
   
   In Greek mythology, Augeas , whose name means "bright", was king of Elis and husband of Epicaste. He is best known for his stables, which housed the single greatest number of cattle in the country and had never been cleaned ....
   . He was king of Elis
   Elis
   
   Elis, or Eleia is an ancient district, that corresponds with the modern Elis Prefecture. It is in southern Greece on the Peloponnesos peninsula, bounded on the north by Achaea, east by Arcadia, south by Messenia, and west by the Ionian Sea....
   , and founded the city of Hyrmina, which he named after his mother. This Actor married Molione and became by her father of the twins known as the Molionides, Cteatus and Eurytus.
5. Actor, son of Hippasus
   Hippasus (mythology)
   
   In Greek mythology, Hippasus is the name of nine characters.*Hippasus, father of Hippomedon, by the nymph Ocyrrhoe, and also of Charops, Socus, Agelaus, and Pammon....
   , one of the Argonauts
   Argonauts
   
   In Greek mythology, the Argonauts were a band of heroes who, in the years before the Trojan War, accompanied Jason to Colchis in his quest to find the Golden Fleece....
   .
6. Actor, son of Oenops. He was among the defenders of the Borraean Gate at Thebes
   Thebes, Greece
   
   Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, Greece, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain....
    when the Seven Against Thebes
   Seven Against Thebes
   
   The Seven against Thebes is a mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes, Greece headed by Eteocles and his supporters....
    attacked the city.
7. Actor, father of Sthenelus
   Sthenelus
   
   In Greek mythology, Sthenelus was a name attributed to four different individuals.*Sthenelus of Perseus and Andromeda .*Son of Capaneus and Evadne....
   . Sthenelus followed Heracles
   Heracles
   
   In Greek mythology, Heracles or Herakles meaning "glory of Hera", or "Glorious through Hera" Alcides or Alcaeus " was a hero, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon and great-grandson of Perseus....
    in his campaign against the amazons
   Amazons
   
   The Amazons , ) are a nation of all-female warriors in Classical and Greek mythology, who were possibly historical. Herodotus placed them in a region bordering Scythia in Sarmatians....
    and was killed by them.
8. Actor, one of the companions of the exiled Aeneas
   Aeneas
   
   This article is about the Roman hero. For other uses, see Aeneas .In Greco-Roman mythology, Aeneas was a Troy hero, the son of prince Anchises and the goddess Venus_....
   . He is probably the same who in another passage is called an Auruncan, and of whose conquered lance Turnus
   Turnus
   
   In Virgil's Aeneid, Turnus was the King of the Rutuli, and the chief antagonist of the hero Aeneas. Prior to Aeneas' arrival in Italy, Turnus was the primary potential suitor of Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, King of the Latin people....
    made a boast. This story seems to have given rise to the proverbial saying "Actoris spolium" ("the spoil of Actor"), for any poor spoil in general.
9. Actor, father of Echecles, the man who received Polymele and her son Eudorus in his home. Eudorus became commander of a company of Myrmidons
   Myrmidons
   
   The Myrmidons were an ancient tribe of Greek mythology. They were very brave and skilled warriors as described in Homer's Iliad, and were commanded by Achilles....
    during the Trojan war
   Trojan War
   
   In Greek mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans after Paris of Troy stole Helen from her husband Menelaus, the king of Sparta....
   .
10. Actor, a warrior in the army of the Seven Against Thebes
    Seven Against Thebes
    
    The Seven against Thebes is a mythic narrative whose classic statement is found in the play by Aeschylus concerning the battle between the Seven led by Polynices, traditional Theban enemies, and the army of Thebes, Greece headed by Eteocles and his supporters....
    . He saw when the chasm opened in the earth that swallowed Amphiaraus.
11. Actor, was a Lapith
    Lapith
    
    In Greek mythology, the Lapiths were a legendary people, whose home was in Thessaly, in the valley of the Peneus and on the mountain Pelion. Like the Myrmidons and other Thessalian tribes, the Lapiths were pre-Hellenic in their origins....
    . He was killed by the Centaur
    Centaur
    
    In Greek mythology, the centaurs are a race of creatures composed of part human and part horse. In early Attica Pottery of ancient Greece, they are depicted with the torso of a human joined at the waist to the horse's withers, where the horse's neck would be....
     Clanis.

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