# Acacesium

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**Acacesium** or **Akakesion** (Ancient Greek: Ἀκακήσιον),[1] was a town of [ancient Arcadia](/source/Ancient_Arcadia) in the district of [Parrhasia](/source/Parrhasia_(Arcadia)), at the foot of a hill of the same name, and 36 [stadia](/source/Stadion_(unit)) on the road from [Megalopolis](/source/Megalopolis,_Greece) to [Phigalea](/source/Phigalea). It is said to have been founded by [Acacus](/source/Acacus_(Greek_mythology)), son of [Lycaon](/source/Lycaon_(king_of_Arcadia)); and according to some traditions, [Hermes](/source/Hermes) was brought up at this place by Acacus, and hence derived the surname of *Acacesius*. Upon the hill there was a statue in stone, in the time of [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), of Hermes Acacesius; and four stadia from the town was a celebrated temple of [Despoena](/source/Despoena).[2] This temple probably stood on the hill, on which are now the remains of the church of St Elias.[3]

Its site is located near modern [Daseiai](/source/Daseiai).[4]

## References

1. [Steph. Byz.](/source/Stephanus_of_Byzantium), *Ethnica*, *s.v.*

1. [Pausanias](/source/Pausanias_(geographer)), *Description of Greece*, 8.3.2, 8.27.4, 8.36.10.

1. [Ross](/source/Ludwig_Ross), *Reisen im Peloponnes.*, vol. i. p. 87.

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