Acamas (son of Antenor) avenged the death of his brother, who had been killed by Ajax, by slaying Promachus the Boeotian. Two sources tackles the versions of the myth regarding Acamas' death. He was killed possibly by Meriones of Crete, half-brother of King Idomeneus in book 16 of the "Iliad", but the Acamas killed there was not specifically identified as a son of Antenor. Quintus of Smyrna describes him as having been killed by the Greek hero Philoctetes. Acamas (son of Antenor) In Greek mythology, Acamas or Akamas (; Ancient Greek: , folk etymology: "unwearying"), was the son of Trojan elder Antenor and Theano,
Greek hero cult Greek hero cult Hero cults were one of the most distinctive features of ancient Greek religion. In Homeric Greek, "hero" (, ) refers to a man who fought (on either side) during the Trojan War. By the historical period, however, the word came to mean specifically a "dead" man, venerated and propitiated at his tomb or at a designated shrine, because his fame during life or his unusual manner of death gave him power to support and protect the living. A hero was more than human but less than a god, and various kinds of supernatural figures came to be