Acamas

Quartigod son of Theseus by Phaedra. Trojan War veteran and Wooden Horse occupant. Together with his brother Demophon, recovered their grandmother Aethra at the fall of Troy — the canonical reunion-scene depicted on Polygnotus' Lesche of the Cnidians at Delphi (Pausanias 10.25.7-8). Father of Munitus by Laodice daughter of Priam during the pre-war embassy — the only Theseid-line continuation attested in primary sources, per Parthenius Erot. Path. 16 citing Hegesippus of Mecyberna.

Parentage

• Theseus
• Phaedra

Children

• Munitus

Powers

• Serve as Achaean envoy demanding Helen's return
• Rescued his grandmother Aethra from captivity at Troy
• Hid among the warriors inside the Wooden Horse

Relations

• father: Theseus
• sibling: Demophon
• half sibling: Hippolytus
• half sibling: Melanippus
• father of: Munitus

Sources

• Apollodorus, Epitome 1.18; Iliupersis fragments (Proclus summary; Allen 1912); Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 12.314-335; Pausanias 1.23.8, 10.25.7-8; Plutarch, Theseus 28; Diodorus 4.62; Lycophron, Alexandra 495-499; Parthenius, Erotica Pathemata 16
• Apollod. Epit. 1.18; Plut. Theseus 28