Acarnan

The name Acarnan is used for at least two separate human figures in Greek tradition. One attestation names Acarnan as a son of Alcmaeon and the naiad Callirrhoe and brother of Amphoterus; this places him within the Alcmaeonid mythic genealogy and the wider cycles of family murder and vengeance associated with Alcmaeon (source citations indicate fuller narratives exist though the supplied excerpts are fragmentary). Separately, Acarnan is attested as one of the Suitors of Penelope who came from Dulichium and who, together with the other suitors, was later killed by Odysseus with the aid of Eumaeus, Philoetius, and Telemachus. The lexical item also functions adjectivally as 'Acarnanian' (of Acarnania), tying the name to the region between Epirus and Aetolia rather than indicating a single unified mythical origin for a supernatural being.

The extant sources present Acarnan solely as an ordinary human figure in genealogical and epic contexts; there is no consistent physical or supernatural description in the provided material. In narrative contexts he appears as a mortal youth/man—either as a member of a heroic family (son of Alcmaeon and Callirrhoe) or as one among the assembled suitors courting Penelope—without any descriptive markers of unusual stature, features, or otherworldly form in the excerpts supplied.

No supernatural abilities are attributed to Acarnan in the provided sources. His reported roles are social and narrative: as a son and sibling within the Alcmaeon family (implying participation in that cycle's human events) and as a member of the suitors who court Penelope and are slain by Odysseus and his allies. The sources do not ascribe magical powers, prophetic gifts, immortality, or other paranormal capacities to either attestation of the name.