Acragas can refer to:

• Acragas, an ancient Greek city on the site of modern Agrigento, Sicily.
• Acragas, a son of the god Zeus and the Oceanid Asterope, to whom the foundation of the above city was traditionally ascribed.^[1]
• Acragas (silversmith), an engraver or chaser in silver, mentioned by Pliny the Elder.
• Acragas, a genus of jumping spiders.

References

1. Stephanus of Byzantium s.v. Ακράγαντες

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1867).

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