. f the modern museums. Acrorea {?)] Akpwpaa. : AKpwpewi)a mountainous tract of country inthe north of Elis. (Diod. xiv. 17Xen. Hell. iii. 2, 30, vii. 4, 14). Acrotatus (AKp6raTos |. 1. Sonof Cleomenes II. king of Sparta,went to Sicily in 314 to assist theAgrigentines against Agathoeles ofSyracuse. But at Agrigentum heacted with such cruelty that the in-habitants rose against him. He re-turned to Sparta, and died in 309before his father, leaving a son,Areus, who succeeded Cleomenes(Diod. xv. 70; Paus. iii. 6,1; , 31.—2. Gran
. f the modern museums. Acrorea {?)] Akpwpaa. : AKpwpewi)a mountainous tract of country inthe north of Elis. (Diod. xiv. 17Xen. Hell. iii. 2, 30, vii. 4, 14). Acrotatus (AKp6raTos |. 1. Sonof Cleomenes II. king of Sparta,went to Sicily in 314 to assist theAgrigentines against Agathoeles ofSyracuse. But at Agrigentum heacted with such cruelty that the in-habitants rose against him. He re-turned to Sparta, and died in 309before his father, leaving a son,Areus, who succeeded Cleomenes(Diod. xv. 70; Paus. iii. 6,1; , 31.—2. Grandson of the pre-ceding, and son of Areus I. king ofSparta, bravely defended Sparta5 (the Wingless Victory), on the Acropolis at Athens, against Pyrrhus in 272; succeeded his father in 265, but was killed inof a building, not a temple, and a portico ; this the same year in battle against Aristodemus,was probably the Chalcotheke, a building in tyrant of Megalopolis (Plut. Pijrrh. 26-28;which was stored all that was required for the Agis, 3; Paus. iii. 6,.*. Temple ol Nike Apterosti Acrothoum or Acrothoi (AKpdBwov, Anf6-6aoi: AKp68wos, AKpoOoirriis : Lavra), a townnear the extremity of the peninsula of AthosiHdt. vii. 22; Thuc. iv. 109; Strab. p. 331). Actaea (Aktohoi, daughter of Ntreus andDoris (II. xviii. 41; Hes. Theog. 249). Actaeon I AktoiW). 1. Son of AristaeusandAutonoe, a daughter of Cadmus, a celebrated service of Athene ( ii. 61); some haveimagined the remains to belong to a temple ofAthene Ergane; but we have no reason tosuppose that there was any such temple. E. ofthe Parthenon, a little NW. of the modemmuseums, are the foundations of the smalltemple of Rome and Augustus, of which thefragment of the epistyle has been found withthe dedication to the emperor under the titlett&arrrds, which he assumed in 27 ( 63). NE. of this, about 150 yards E. of thegreat statue and visible from it (if we assumethat the old temple between the Erechtheuinand the P
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