Acraepheus
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Acraepheus was, in Greek mythology
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...

 a son of Apollo
Apollo
Apollo is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in Greek and Roman mythology...

 to whom the foundation of the town of Acraephnium, a Boeotian
Boeotian
Boeotian may refer to:* The people from Boeotia, a region of central ancient Greece* One of several sub-dialects of the Aeolic Greek dialect of the Greek language, spoken by the Boeotians....

 town on the lake Copais, was ascribed. In Acraephnium, Apollo was thus attached with the epithet Acraephius or Acraephiaeus by worshipers.
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