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Abantiades

Ἀβαντιάδης

(Ἀβαντιάδης) signifies in general a descendant of Abas, but is used especially to designate Perseus, the great-grandson of Abas (Ov. Met. 4.673, 5.138, 236), and Acrisius, a son of Abas. (Ov. Met. 4.607.) A female descendant of Abas, as Danae and Atalante, was called Abantias.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.