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       Herakles cult and epithet info
   DIR By: Ashlin the gray
       Date: February 12, 2021, 5:33 am
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       All info here was compiled from theoi.com
       Gods Who Share Cultus or Shrines with Herakles
       Apollon
       The Dioskouroi
       Hermes
       Theseus
       Zeus
       Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 31. 6 (trans. Jones) (Greek
       travelogue C2nd A.D.) :
       "There is a parish called Akharnai, where they worship Apollon
       Agyieus (God of Streets) and Herakles."
       Pausanias, Description of Greece 1. 34. 3 :
       "About twelve stades from the city [of Oropos] is a sanctuary of
       Amphiaraos . . . The altar shows parts. One part is to Herakles,
       Zeus, and Apollo Paionos (Healer)...
       Pindar, Nemean Ode 10. 52 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th
       B.C.) :
       "The two brothers [the Dioskouroi], at the games of Sparta's
       wide-built city, joint partons with Hermes and with Herakles the
       presidency share."
       Pausanias, Description of Greece 3. 21. 8 :
       "The people of Gythion say that their city had no human founder,
       but that Herakles and Apollo, when they were reconciled after
       their strife for the possession of the tripod, united to found
       the city. In the market-place they have images of Apollon and of
       Herakles, and a Dionysos stands near them."
       Pausanias, Description of Greece 4. 32. 1 :
       "The place called Hierothesion by the Messenians contains
       statues of all the gods whom the Greeks worship . . . The
       statues in the gymnasium are the work of Egyptian artists. They
       represent Hermes, Herakles and Theseus, who are honored in the
       gymnasium and wrestling-ground according to a practice universal
       among Greeks, and now common among barbarians."
       Epithets of Herakles
       Alexikakos - Averter of evil
       Charops - Bright eyed
       Menytes - denouncer
       Monoikos - A solitary god
       Palaimôn - Wrestler
       Parastates - Assistant or Comrade
       Promakhos - Champion
       Pausanias, Description of Greece 5. 8. 1 :
       "Later on there came (they say) from Krete Klymenos, the son of
       Kardys, about fifty years after the flood came upon the Greeks
       in the time of Deukalion. He was descended from Herakles Idaios;
       he held the games at Olympia and set up an altar in honor of
       Heracles, his ancestor, and the other Kouretes, giving to
       Heracles the surname of Parastates (Assistant)."
       Pausanias, Description of Greece 6. 23. 1 :
       . . . There are also in the gymnasium [of Elis] altars of the
       gods, of Herakles Idaios, surnamed Parastates (Comrade), of Eros
       (Love), of the deity called by Eleans and Athenians alike
       Anteros (Love Returned)."
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