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PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
An aboriginal of land of Patrae, taught by Triptolemus to sow.
MESSATIS (Ancient city) PATRA
The stories told of Dionysus by the people of Patrae, that he was reared in Mesatis and incurred there all sob of perils through the plots of the Titans, I will not contradict, but will leave it to the people of Patrae to explain the name Mesatis as they choose.
PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Comaetho: Priestess of Artemis Triclaria, sacrificed to goddess for breach of chastity. Melanippos : Lover of Comaetho, sacrificed to Artemis.
ANTHIA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Triptolemus: with Eumelus founds city Anthea.
AROI (Ancient city) PATRA
An aboriginal of land of Patrae, taught by Triptolemus to sow.
PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Preugenes: Achaean leader, son of Agenor. Patreus: Son of Preugenes, Achaean leader, founds Patrae, his grave, statue, annual sacrifices to him.
AROI (Ancient city) PATRA
Aesymnetes (Aisumnetes), a surname of Dionysus, which signifies the Lord, or Ruler,
and under which he was worshipped at Aroe in Achaia. The story about the introduction
of his worship there is as follows: There was at Troy an ancient image of Dionysus,
the work of Hephaestus, which Zeus had once given as a present to Dardanus. It
was kept in a chest, and Cassandra, or, according to others, Aeneas, left this
chest behind when she quitted the city, because she knew that it would do injury
to him who possessed it. When the Greeks divided the spoils of Troy among themselves,
this chest fell to the share of the Thessallian Eurypylus, who on opening it suddenly
fell into a state of madness. The oracle of Delphi, when consulted about his recovery,
answered, " Where thou shalt see men performing a strange sacrifice, there shalt
thou dedicate the chest, and there shalt thou settle." When Eurypylus came to
Aroe in Achaia, it was just the season at which its inhabitants offered every
year to Artemis Triclaria a human sacrifice, consisting of the fairest youth and
the fairest maiden of the place. This sacrifice was offered as an atonement for
a crime which had once been committed in the temple of the goddess. But an oracle
had declared to them, that they should be released from the necessity of making
this sacrifice, if a foreign divinity should be brought to them by a foreign king.
This oracle was now fulfilled. Eurypylus on seeing the victims led to the altar
was cured of his madness and perceived that this was the place pointed out to
him by the oracle; and the Aroeans also, on seeing the god in the chest, remembered
the old prophecy, stopped the sacrifice, and instituted a festival of Dionysus
Aesymnetes, for this was the name of the god in the chest. Nine men and nine women
were appointed to attend to his worship. During one night of this festival a priest
carried the chest outside the town, and all the children of the place, adorned,
as formerly the victims used to be, with garlands of corn-ears, went down to the
banks of the river Meilichius, which had before been called Ameilichius, hung
up their garlands, purified themselves, and then put on other garlands of ivy,
after which they returned to the sanctuary of Dionysus Aesymnetes (Paus. vii.
19 and 20). This tradition, though otherwise very obscure, evidently points to
a time when human sacrifices were abolished at Aroe by the introduction of a new
worship. At Patrae in Achaia there was likewise a temple dedicated to Dionysus
Aesymnetes (Paus. vii. 21.12).
This text is from: A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, 1873 (ed. William Smith). Cited Sep 2005 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
PATRAI (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Son of Euaemon, brings image of Dionysus in chest to Aroe (Patrae).
ANTHIA (Ancient city) ACHAIA
Son of Eumelus, killed in driving car of Triptolemus.
AROI (Ancient city) PATRA
Triptolemus came from Attica, he received from him cultivated corn, and, learning how to found a city, named it Aroe from the tilling of the soil. (Paus. 7.18.2)
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