Listed 14 sub titles with search on: Local gods for wider area of: "GREECE Country EUROPE" .
AKROKORINTHOS (Castle) KORINTHOS
Receives Acro-Corinth from the Sun.
AVES (Ancient city) ATALANTI
Abae from of old has been considered sacred to Apollo, and here too there was an oracle of that god. (Paus. 10.35.1)
Abaeus (Abaios), a surname of Apollo derived from the town of Abae in Phocis, where the god had a rich temple. (Hesych. s. v. Abai; Herod. viii. 33; Paus. x. 35. Β§ 1, &c.)
EGES (Ancient city) ACHAIA
This Aegae is mentioned by Homer in Hera's speech: "They bring thee gifts up to Helice and to Aegae". Hence it is plain that Poseidon was equally honored at Helice and at Aegae.(Pausan. 7,25,12)
LEVADIA (Ancient city) VIOTIA
A Boeotian god or hero, his oracular shrine consulted by Croesus, by Mardonius, son of Apollo or Erginus, his nurse and children, with his brother Agamedes builds bridal chamber of Alcmena at Thebes, temple of Apollo at Delphi, treasury for Hyrieus at Orchomenus and sanctuary of Poseidon at Mantinea, cuts off head of his brother Agamedes, swallowed up by earth, worshipped at Lebadea, his shrine at Lebadea, his grove, temple, and image at Lebadea, image made by Daedalus, oracle of Trophonius, shield of Aristomenes preserved in shrine of Trophonius.
OGCHISTOS (Ancient city) VIOTIA
POTNIES (Ancient city) THIVA
Across the Asopus, about ten stades distant from the city, are the ruins of Potniae, in which is a grove of Demeter and the Maid. The images at the river that flows past Potniae. . . they name the goddesses. At an appointed time they perform their accustomed ritual, one part of which is to let loose young pigs into what are called “the halls.” At the same time next year these pigs appear, they say, in Dodona.
PYLOS TRIFYLIAS (Ancient city) ILIA
The following is the reason why the Eleans worship Hades; they are the only men
we know of so to do. It is said that, when Heracles was leading an expedition
against Pylus in Elis, Athena was one of his allies. Now among those who came
to fight on the side of the Pylians was Hades, who was the foe of Heracles but
was worshipped at Pylus.
Homer is quoted in support of the story, who says in the Iliad: "And
among them huge Hades suffered a wound from a swift arrow, When the same man,
the son of aegis-bearing Zeus, Hit him in Pylus among the dead, and gave him over
to pains". (Hom. Il. 5.395-397)
If in the expedition of Agamemnon and Menelaus against Troy Poseidon
was according to Homer an ally of the Greeks, it cannot be unnatural for the same
poet to hold that Hades helped the Pylians. At any rate it was in the belief that
the god was their friend but the enemy of Heracles that the Eleans made the sanctuary
for him. The reason why they are wont to open it only once each year is, I suppose,
because men too go down only once to Hades. (Paus. 6.25.2)
THIVES (Ancient city) VIOTIA
Editor’s Information:
More about Heracles can be found at ancient Argos
Editor’s Information:
The plot of "Heracles", the tragedy written by Euripides, of which the e-text(s) is (are) found in Greece (ancient country) under the category Ancient Greek Writings , is taking place in Thebes.
YAMPOLIS (Ancient city) ATALANTI
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