Akraia (nickname)

Akraia ( Greek  Ἀκραία ) is the epithet of several goddesses in Greek mythology when they had places of worship on mountains. The male equivalent of Akraios (Greek Ἀκραῖος ) is only documented for Zeus .

The individual goddesses are:

• Hera in Corinth
• Aphrodite in Knidos , Troizen , on Cyprus and in Argos (see Aphrodite Akraia )
• Artemis in Argos
• Tyche in Sicyon

literature

• Julius Adolf Bernhard : Akraia 2) . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 213 ( digitized version ).
• Georg Wentzel : Akraia 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 1193.
• Georg Wentzel : Akraios 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Sp. 1193 f.
• Baruch Lifshitz: The cult of Zeus Akraios and Zeus Bakchos in Beisan (Skythopolis). In: Journal of the German Palestine Association . Volume 77, 1961, pp. 186-190. JSTOR

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dikaiarchos : Description of Greece . Fragment 2, 8.
2. ↑ Euripides : Medea 1379.
3. ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 9, 28.
4. ^ Pausanias 2:24 , 1.
5. ↑ Livy 32:23 , 10.
6. ^ Pausanias 1, 1, 3.
7. ^ Pausanias 1, 32, 6.
8. ↑ Strabo 14, 682.
9. ↑ ^{a b} Hesychios of Alexandria
10. ^ Pausanias 2: 7, 5.