According to the Byzantine Suda Lexicon, the ancient Greek historian Scamon of Mytilene claimed that Actaeus named the Phoenician letters in honor of his daughter Phoenice, who had died a virgin.
[5] Actaeus was said to have ruled over the kingdom of Attica, named Acte (Ἀκτή Akte) or Actica[2], before it became known as Cecropia more than a thousand years later.
The ancient Parian Chronicle inscribed in pure marble from Paros states that Actaeus gave Aktike[6] its name before it was changed to Cecropia by King Cecrops, and thus later become known as Attica.
Another story tells that Atthis, a daughter of Cranaos, the king succeeding Cecrops in Athens, was Attica's namesake.
Year 1318 of Aktike confers to the Gregorian timeline's 1581 BC, according to the Digital Marmor Parium project at the University of Leipzig, directed by Dr. Monica Berti[9] Actaeus armatus, a Middle Cambrian (~505 MA) arthropod from the Burgess Shale, was named after Actaeus.