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Acestes

Publié le 22/02/2012

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Roman Son of the Trojan woman Egesta and the Sicilian river god Crimisus; founder of Segesta, a city in Sicily. Acestes welcomed to Sicily Aeneas, the hero from Troy, near the end of the hero's great journey following the Trojan War. Aeneas' father, Anchises, died in Sicily. Acestes helped the hero bury his father, and a year later, helped Aeneas celebrate the games commemorating Anchises' death. Acestes also provided a home in Sicily and founded cities there for the Trojan women who, after years of travel, refused to go any farther. According to some accounts, Acestes, who was born in Sicily, traveled to Troy to fight in the great war with the Greeks, but returned to Sicily before the end of the war.