ABSTRACT
It is uncertain whether this isone mythical personage or two. If two, both were Argonauts and both were killed by boars.
1. Ancaeus, son of Lycurgus 3, king of Arcadia, was sent on Jason’s expedition of the Argo by his father, together with his uncles Amphidamas and Cepheus. He was the strongest Argonaut next to Heracles, and was paired with him on the rowing-bench. After the return of Argo, he was killed by the boar in the Calydonian boar-hunt, because of his foolhardy courage, or because he had claimed to be as good a hunter as Artemis. His son was Agapenor.
