Aracynthus (Ancient Greek: Ἀράκυνθος) was a range of mountains in Aetolia, the exact position of which is uncertain.
[1][2][3] Pliny the Elder[4] and Gaius Julius Solinus[5] erroneously call Aracynthus a mountain of Acarnania.
If we can trust the authority of later writers and of the Roman poets, there was a mountain of the name of Aracynthus both in Boeotia and in Attica, or perhaps on the frontiers of the two countries.
As noted by McClure (2011), the Roman poet Statius, writing during the reign of Domitian, mentions both a Boeotian and Aetolian Aracynthus in his epic Thebaid.
[11] The mountain is connected with the Boeotian hero Amphion both by Propertius[12] and by Virgil,[13] and the line of Virgil from Eclogue 2 “Amphion Dircaeus in Actaeo Aracyntho”—would seem to place the mountain on the frontiers of Boeotia and Attica.