Tags: Mythological Figure.
Acontius is also a spider genus (Cyrtaucheniidae).Acontius (Greek: Ἀκόντιος) was in Greek mythology a beautiful youth of the island of Ceos the hero of a love-story told by Callimachus in a poem of which only fragments remain and which forms the subject of two of Ovid’s Heroides (xx xxi). During the festival of Artemis at Delos Acontius saw Cydippe a well-born Athenian maiden of whom he was enamoured sitting in the temple of the goddess.