Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology/Acestor 3.

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ACESTOR (Ἀκέστωρ), a sculptor mentioned by Pausanias (vi. 17. §2) as having executed a statue of Alexibius, a native of Heraea in Arcadia, who had gained a victory in the pentathlon at the Olympic games. He was born at Cnossus, or at any rate exercised his profession there for some time. (Paus. x. 15. §4.) He had a son named Amphion, who was also a sculptor, and had studied under Ptolichus of Corcyra (Paus. vi. 3. §2); so that Acestor must have been a contemporary of the latter, who flourished about Ol. 82. (b. c. 452.)[C.P. M.]