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Arcesius (or Arkêsios; also spelled Arceisius, Αρκείσιος), was the son of Cephalus, and king in Ithaca. He was father of Laertes, and thus grandfather of Odysseus. Arcesius' wife, and thus mother of Laertes, was Chalcomedusa, whose origins are not mentioned further, but whose very name, chalcos, "copper" + medousa "guardian, protectress", identifies her as the protector of Bronze Age metal-working technology. Of another Arcesius, an architect, Vitruvius (vii, introduction) notes: "Arcesius, on the Corinthian order proportions, and on the Ionic order temple of Aesculapius at Tralles, which it is said that he built with his own hands."

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