Demophon (2) and Acamas Demophon,
a king of Athens, and Acamas were sons of
Phaedra and Theseus. Classical resources are
Apollodorus’s Library (Epitome 1.18, 1.23, five.22,
6.Sixteen), Hyginus’s Fabulae (fifty nine), Ovid’s Heroides
(2), and Pausanias’s Description of Greece (10.25.Eight).
Demophon and Acamas are, with some varia-
tions inside the sources, connected with the bringing of
the Palladium to Athens. Their father, Theseus,
kidnapped Helen, but she become rescued by means of her
brothers, the Dioscuri. In revenge, the Dioscuri
abducted Theseus’s mother, Aethra. Aethra
became both a servant or a handmaiden to
Helen and followed her to Troy. Acamas and
Demophon undertook the rescue of their grand-
mother Aethra in Troy. Pausanias’s Description
of Greece
