Acmon

There are several characters named Acmon or Akmon (Ancient Greek: Ἄκμων means 'anvil, pestle') in Greek mythology:

• Acmon, one of the mythical race of Dactyls.
• Acmon, a Phrygian king who gave his name to the district known as Acmonia.
• Acmon, a mischievous forest creature who lived in Thermopylae or on Euboea but roamed the world and might turn up anywhere mischief was afoot.
• Acmon, a companion of Diomedes in Italy. He was turned into a bird.
• Acmon, the Aenead, son of Clytius (son of Aeolus), a friend of Aeneas in Roman mythology. Together with his father, they followed Aeneas in his exile after the fall of Troy.
• Acmon, the child of Gaia (Earth) and the father of Uranus (Sky) in an early Greek theogony.