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According to scholia on the Odyssey, Arcesius ' parents were Zeus and Euryodeia ; Ovid also writes of Arcesius as a son of Zeus.

Other sources make him a son of Cephalus.

Aristotle in his lost work The State of the Ithacians cited a myth according to which Cephalus was instructed by an oracle to mate with the first female being he should encounter if he wanted to have offspring ; Cephalus mated with a she-bear, who then transformed into a human woman and bore him a son, Arcesius.

Hyginus makes Arcesius a son of Cephalus and Procris, while Eustathius mentions a version according to which Arcesius was a grandson of Cephalus through Cillus or Celeus.