- Information
- region in central Greece
- Place of birth of
- 👤 Penelope 👤 Alyzos 👤 Leucadios
- Founded by
- 👤 Acarnan (eponym) 👤 Amphoteros (s. of Alcmaion)
- Settled by
- 👤 Icarios (Spartan) 👤 Tyndareos
- Settled from
- 🌍 Sparta (Laconia)
- Eponym
- 👤 Acarnan (eponym)
- Ruled by
- 👤 Alcmaion (epigonos) 👤 Amphilochos (epigonos) 👤 Cephalos (h. of Procris) 👤 Icarios (Spartan) 👤 Laertes 👤 Odysseus 👤 Alyzos 👤 Leucadios
- Conquered by
- 👤 Alcmaion (epigonos) 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 👤 Icarios (Spartan) 👤 Thestios (Aitolian) 👤 Tyndareos
- Related Entities
- 👤 Acarnan (eponym) 👤 Aitolos (eponym) 👤 Alcmaion (epigonos) 👤 Amphilochos (epigonos) 👤 Amphoteros (s. of Alcmaion) 👤 Cephalos (h. of Procris) 👥 the Couretes (Aitolians) 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 👤 Icarios (Spartan) 👤 Laertes 👤 Penelope 👤 Odysseus 👤 Thestios (Aitolian) 👤 Tyndareos 🌍 Sparta (Laconia) 🌍 Aitolia 🌍 Ithaca (island) 🌍 Euboia (island) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 the Taphian Islands 🌍 Naupactos (Ozolian Locris) 🌍 Same (island) 🌍 Zacynthos (island) 👥 the Teleboans 👤 Carnos 🌍 Crocyleia (Ithaca) 🌍 Aigilips (Ithaca) 👥 the Leleges of Argos 👤 Mentes (Taphian) 👤 Alyzos 👤 Leucadios 🌍 Cape Leucas (Acarnania) 👤 Polycaste (Acarnanian)
- Mentioned by
- 📖 Apollodoros, Library 3.7.7 📖 Alcmaionid fr. 6 Davies 📖 Pausanias 3.13.3-3.13.5 📖 Pausanias 8.24.7-8.24.10 📖 Strabo 10.2.9 📖 Strabo 10.2.10 📖 Strabo 7.7.2 📖 Strabo 7.7.7 📖 Strabo 8.6.17 📖 Strabo 10.2.24 📖 Strabo 10.2.25-10.2.26 📖 Strabo 10.3.2-10.3.4 📖 Strabo 10.3.8 📖 Strabo 10.3.6
- Mentioned in Text
- Apollodoros, Library Alcmaionid Pausanias Strabo
- Mentioned in citation of
- 📖 Homer, Odyssey 1.381-1.418 📖 Homer, Odyssey 2.50-2.59 📖 Alcmaionid fr. 6 Davies 📖 Homer, Iliad 2.631-2.637 📖 Aristotle, Politeiai fr. 474 Rose 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 123b 📖 Thucydides 2.68.3 📖 Homer, Odyssey 14.80-14.108 📖 Homer, Odyssey 15.10-15.42 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 123a 📖 Ephoros FGrHist 70 fr. 122a ⚒️ Inscription on the Statue of Aitolos at Thermon (Not Extant) ⚒️ Inscription on the Statue of Oxylos from Elis (Not Extant)
- Reported to have local traditions about
- 👤 Acheloos (river god) 👤 Alcmaion (epigonos) 👤 Callirhoe (Acarnian) 🌍 the Echinades (islands)
- Local traditions reported by
- 📖 Pausanias 8.24.7-8.24.10 📖 Pausanias 8.24.7-8.24.12