Tags: Mythological Figure.
Akademos or Academus (/ˌækəˈdiːməs/; Ancient Greek: Ἀκάδημος; also Hekademos Hecademus (Ἑκάδημος)) was an Attic hero in Greek mythology. Plutarch in his biography of the Athenian king Theseus (the slayer of the Minotaur) says that after being widowed and reaching age 50 the King abducted the beautiful 12-year old Helen (long before she married Menealaus met Paris and was the cause of the Trojan War).