Ancaeus
Ἀγκαῖος
(Ἀγκαῖος).
1. A son of the Arcadian Lycurgus and Creophile or Eurynome, and father of Agapenor. (Apollod. 1.8.2, 3.9.2, 10.8; Hyg. Fab. 173; Hom. Il. 2.609.) He was one of the Argonauts and partook in the Calydonian hunt, in which he was killed by the boar. (Apollod. 1.9. §§ 16 and 23; comp. Paus. 8.5.2, 45.2; Apollon. 2.894; Ov. Met. 8.400.)
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.