Agetor

Agetor ( Greek Ἀγήτωρ , "leader") is an epicle of several Greek deities.

In Sparta was Zeus agetor revered, he had a fire altar on which brought the king before the start of a campaign a victim and lit a torch to the fire, which was carried before the army in battle. In a Scholion to Theocrites , the Carneia in Sparta, actually celebrated in honor of Carneios , or Apollo Carneios , are connected with Zeus Agetor . One possible explanation for this is that the Zeus Agetor was imagined as the army marched out, which is why it was attached to the military festival in the Spartan cult. In a gloss in Hesychios of Alexandria a priest of the Karneen Agetes ( Ἀγητής ) and in this context the Karneen Agetoria ( Ἀγητόρια ) are mentioned. In the Scholion of Theocritus there is the message of Theopomps , after which Apollo Carneios was called Zeus and Hegetor ( Ἑγήτωρ ) in Argos .

According to Pausanias , a statue of Hermes Agetor stood in a sanctuary in Megalopolis next to statues of Apollo, Athena , Poseidon , Helios and Heracles , where mysteries based on the model of the Attic mysteries of Eleusis were performed in honor of these gods .

In Cyprus , the priest was called Agetor, who directed Aphrodite's sacrifice . It is unclear whether the festival of Agetoria, mentioned in Hesychios, was for Aphrodite or for one of the three gods that bore the epithet.

literature

Georg Wentzel : Agetor 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 807.
Konrat Ziegler : Zeus (nickname) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 6, Leipzig 1937, Col. 592 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

↑ Xenophon The State of the Lacedaemonians 13, 2.
↑ Scholion to Theocritus 5, 83.
↑ Martin Persson Nilsson : Greek festivals of religious importance excluding the Attic. Teubner, Leipzig 1906. Reprinted by Teubner, Stuttgart 1995, p. 123. ISBN 3-519-07254-8
^ Hesychios of Alexandria sv Ἀγητής
^ Theopomp in the Scholion to Theocrit 5, 83.
^ Pausanias 8:31 , 7.
↑ Hesychios of Alexandria sv Ἀγητής and Ἀγητόρειον

[1] Xenophon The State of the Lacedaemonians 13, 2.

[2] Scholion to Theocritus 5, 83.

[3] Martin Persson Nilsson : Greek festivals of religious importance excluding the Attic. Teubner, Leipzig 1906. Reprinted by Teubner, Stuttgart 1995, p. 123. ISBN 3-519-07254-8

[4] Hesychios of Alexandria sv Ἀγητής

[5] Theopomp in the Scholion to Theocrit 5, 83.

[6] Pausanias 8:31 , 7.

[7] Hesychios of Alexandria sv Ἀγητής and Ἀγητόρειον