Alopekos

Alopekos ( Greek  Ἀλώπεκος ) is a person from Greek mythology .

Alopekos was after Pausanias the son of the Lacedaemonian Irbos and thus a descendant of the mythical Spartan king Agis in the fourth generation. He and his brother Astrabakos went mad when they found the cult image of Artemis Orthia, kidnapped by Orestes and Iphigenia to Sparta, in a Lygos bush . They were the first to fall victim to the malevolent creature of Orthia in Sparta, whose cult was subsequently connected with human sacrifice until Lycurgus replaced him with the whipping of Ephebe in order to stain the altar of Orthia with human blood and on it Way to satisfy the goddess' thirst for blood.

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• Pausanias 3:16, 9

literature

• Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Astrabakos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 658 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Karl Tümpel : Alopekos . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 1597 f.