Acratus is a classical name attributed to the following individuals:
*Acratus ( el, Ἄκρατος) is also the name by which
Pausanias called the hero
Acratopotes
In Greek mythology, Acratopotes (Ancient Greek: ), the drinker of unmixed wine, was a hero worshiped in Munychia in Attica. According to Pausanias, who calls him simply Acratus, he was one of the divine companions of Dionysus, who was worshiped at ...
.
*Acratus was a
freedman
A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, enslaved people were freed by manumission (granted freedom by their captor-owners), emancipation (granted freedom a ...
of
Nero. He was sent by Nero in 64 AD to
Asia and
Achaea
Achaea () or Achaia (), sometimes transliterated from Greek as Akhaia (, ''Akhaïa'' ), is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The ...
to plunder the temples and take away the statues of the gods.
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