Actor (Ancient Greek: Ἄκτωρ; gen.: Ἄκτoρος Aktoros) is a very common name in Greek mythology. Here is a selection of characters that share this name (which means 'leader', from the verb άγω: to lead or carry):

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  1. ^ Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.79
  2. ^ Apollodorus, 1.7.3
  3. ^ as cited in Orphic Argonautica 179: "There also came Eurytion son of Iros the Aktorian leaving rugged Opus"
  4. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.74
  5. ^ Diodorus, 4.72.6
  6. ^ Apollodorus, 3.13.1-2
  7. ^ Homer, Iliad 11.785 & 16.14; Pindar, Olympian Odes 9.69; Apollodorus, 1.9.16
  8. ^ a b c Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Actor (1), (2), (3)", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston, MA, p. 17{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  9. ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 10(a) and 58; Apollodorus, 1.9.4; Hyginus, Fabulae 198
  10. ^ Hard, pp. 435, 565
  11. ^ Hesiod, Ehoiai fr.68; 2.34-42
  12. ^ Homer, Iliad 2.513; Pausanias, 9.37.7
  13. ^ Apollodorus, 2.5.5
  14. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 14.2
  15. ^ Apollodorus, 2.7.2; Pausanias, 5.1.11 & 8.14.6
  16. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 157
  17. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 488
  18. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.16; Hyginus, Fabulae 14
  19. ^ Valerius Flaccus, 1.146
  20. ^ Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.911 ff. with scholia
  21. ^ Tzetzes on Lycophron, 901
  22. ^ Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 538
  23. ^ Statius, Thebaid 8.135
  24. ^ Statius, Thebaid 11.354-381
  25. ^ Homer, Iliad 16.189
  26. ^ Collard, C.; Cropp, M. J., eds. (2008). Euripides Fragments: Oedipus–Chrysippus; Other Fragments. Harvard University Press. pp. 370–371. ISBN 9780674996311.
  27. ^ Hyginus, Fabulae 102
  28. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 9.500
  29. ^ Virgil, Aeneid 12.94
  30. ^ Juvenalis, 2.100
  31. ^ Homer, Odyssey 23.225 ff.

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