Ancaeus, son of King
Lycurgus of
Arcadia, was both an
Argonaut and a participant in the
Calydonian Boar hunt, in which he met his end. His arms were ominously hidden at home, but he set forth, dressed in a bearskin and armed only with a
labrys (λάβρυς "doubled-bladed axe"). His wife was named Iotis, and his mother was either
Cleophyle or
Eurynome according to one account, or
Antinoe according to another one. Ancaeus' son
Agapenor led the Arcadian forces during the
Trojan War.