Acantha

For instance, the first edition of John Lemprière's Bibliotheca Classica, an early encyclopaedia of mythological figures, provides no reference for the story.

These are to Pliny the Elder's Natural History, Pedanius Dioscorides' De Materia Medica and Hesychius of Alexandria's Lexicon.

[15] The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, a similarly comprehensive source containing a complete repository of Ancient Greek texts from Homer through to A.D. 200,[16] is also absent the myth.

[17] The story is not present in either the Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae,[18] a work praised for its breadth and quality,[19][20] or Der Neue Pauly,[21] an encyclopaedia considered an unparalleled masterpiece of classical German scholarship.

[22][23] Acantha's tale has lifted elements from the myth of Oenone, a nymph who scratched Apollo's face while he raped her, as attested in the poem Fasti by the Roman poet Ovid; that text however has been extended with various spurious post-Ovidian interpolations, and Oenone's rape is, like Acantha herself, otherwise unattested.