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The name Ancaeus or Ankaios (???a???) is attributed to two heroes in Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
. Both were 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 each met his death at the tusks of a boar. They are often confused with one another.

eus, son of King Lycurgus
Lycurgus (Arcadia)

Lycurgus, in Greek mythology, was the king of Arcadia. He was the son of Aleus, the previous ruler, and Neaera, daughter of Proteus. Lycurgus married either Cleophyle or Eurynome and bore these sons: Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasius....
 of Arcadia
Arcadia

Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
, was both an Argonaut and a participant in the Calydonian Boar
Calydonian Boar

The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful wom...
 hunt, in which he met his end. His arms were ominously hidden at home, but he set forth, dressed in a bearskin and armed only with a labrys
Labrys

Labrys is the term for a symmetrical doubleheaded axe, known to the Classical Greeks as pelekus or sagaris, and to the Romans as a bipennis....
 (??ß??? "doubled-bladed axe").






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The name Ancaeus or Ankaios (???a???) is attributed to two heroes in Greek mythology
Greek mythology

Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices....
. Both were 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 each met his death at the tusks of a boar. They are often confused with one another.

Ancaeus of Arcadia

Ancaeus, son of King Lycurgus
Lycurgus (Arcadia)

Lycurgus, in Greek mythology, was the king of Arcadia. He was the son of Aleus, the previous ruler, and Neaera, daughter of Proteus. Lycurgus married either Cleophyle or Eurynome and bore these sons: Ancaeus, Epochus, Amphidamas, and Iasius....
 of Arcadia
Arcadia

Arcadia, Arkad?a , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas....
, was both an Argonaut and a participant in the Calydonian Boar
Calydonian Boar

The Calydonian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honor her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in which many male heroes took part, but also a powerful wom...
 hunt, in which he met his end. His arms were ominously hidden at home, but he set forth, dressed in a bearskin and armed only with a labrys
Labrys

Labrys is the term for a symmetrical doubleheaded axe, known to the Classical Greeks as pelekus or sagaris, and to the Romans as a bipennis....
 (??ß??? "doubled-bladed axe"). His wife was named Iotis, and his mother was either Cleophyle or Eurynome
Eurynome

In Greek mythology, there were many women with the name Eur?nom?, with the possible significance "far-wandering" .#The Eurynome , or daughter of Oceanus....
. Ancaeus' son Agapenor
Agapenor

Agapenor was in Greek mythology a leader of the Arcadians in the Trojan war. He was a son of Ancaeus#Ancaeus of Arcadia, and grandson of Lycurgus ....
 led the Arcadian forces 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....
.

Ancaeus of Samos

Ancaeus was king of the island of Samos
Samos Island

Samos is a Greece island in the North Aegean sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the Ionian coast of Turkey....
, and an Argonaut
Argonaut

Argonaut may refer to:* Argonaut , a kind of octopus in the genus Argonauta* Jason and the Argonauts, sailors in Greek mythology* Argonauts of Saint Nicholas, a military order in Naples...
: helmsmanship was his special skill. He was a son of Poseidon
Poseidon

In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the god of the sea and, as "Earth-Shaker," of earthquakes. The name of the god Nethuns in Etruscan mythology was adopted in Latin for Neptune in Roman mythology: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon....
 and Astypalaea
Astypalaea

In Greek mythology, Astypalaea was the daughter of Agenor and Perimede and the sister of Europa . She was a lover of Poseidon who seduced her in the form of a goat and had two sons by him: Ancaeus, King of Samos Island, and Eurypylos, King of Kos....
, and brother of Eurypylus
Eurypylus

In Greek mythology, Eurypylus was the name of several different people....
. By other accounts his father was the Lelegian king Altes
Altes

In Greek mythology, Altes was a Leleges king who resided at Pedasus, which was situated in or near the Troad. According to Homer's Iliad Altes was the father of Laothoe, one of the many wives of King Priam....
, which accords well with Ancaeus's rule over the Leleges
Leleges

The Leleges were one of the aboriginal peoples of southwest Anatolia , who were already there when the Indo-European Greeks emerged. The Leleges were overcome by the Carians, according to the earliest Greek historians, who suggested connections of the Leleges in mainland Greece as well....
 of Samos. According to a lost epic of his house, sung by the Samian poet Asios, he married Samia, daughter of the river god Maeander
Meander (mythology)

Meander or Maiandros is a river-god in Greek mythology, patron deity of the Meander river in Caria, southern Asia Minor . He is one of the sons of Oceanus and Tethys , and is the father of Cyanee, Samia and Kalamos....
, who bore him Perilaus, Enudus, Samus, Alitherses, and Parthenope, the mother of Lycomedes
Lycomedes

Lycomedes , in Greek mythology, was the King of Scyros during the Trojan War....
. The most famous story surrounding this Ancaeus is the following: When planting a vineyard, for Samos was famed for its wine, he was told by a seer that he would never taste its wine. Ancaeus then joined the voyage of the Argonauts, and returned home safely, by which time the grapes were ripe and had been made into wine. He summoned the seer before him, and raised a cup of his own wine to his lips, and was ready to taste it for the first time. He then mocked the seer, who retorted, "There is many a slip between cup and the lip". Before Ancaeus had tasted the wine, an alarm was raised that a wild boar was ravaging the vineyard, and on hearing this, Ancaeus dropped the cup and went out to investigate - and was promptly killed by the boar.

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