Actor
Ἄκτωρ
(Ἄκτωρ).
1. A son of Deion and Diomede, the daughter of Xuthus. He was thus a brother of Asteropeia, Acnetus, Phylacus, and Cephalus, and husband of Aegina, father of Menoetius, and grandfather of Patroclus. (Apollod. 1.9.4, 16, 3.10.8; Pind. O. 9.75; Hom. Il. 11.785, 16.14.)
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.