Boedromios
Boëdromios ( Greek Βοηδρόμιος , who rushes to help under a battle cry ) is an epithet of Apollo .
The origin of the epithet is derived differently in Greek mythology . According to Callimachos , Apollo won the Athenians victory in their struggle under Erechtheus against the Eleusinians under Eumolpos by advising them in the oracle to begin the attack with loud cries of battle. According to Plutarch , Apollon assisted the Athenians in the fight against the Amazons , who were then defeated on the seventh Boëdromion .
After him, the third month of the Attic year was called Boëdromion, on the seventh day of the same in Athens the festival of Boëdromia was celebrated in his honor with warlike pomp . Passed into a commemoration of the battle of Marathon . Pausanias ' report of a statue of Apollon Boëdromios next to the temple of Artemis Eukleia in Thebes attests to a veneration outside Athens . The use of the month's name in other Ionic and Doric calendars indicates further worship outside Athens.
literature
- Otto Jessen : Boëdromios . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 595 f.
- Ludolf Stephani : Apollon Boëdromios. Bronze statue in the possession of his illustrious Count Sergei Stroganoff . Book printing of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 1860.
- Hermann Steuding : Boëdromios . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 788 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Nicknames of Apollo in the Theoi Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Callimachus : Hymnos to Apollo 69.
- ↑ Plutarch : Theseus 27.
- ^ August Mommsen : Festivals of the city of Athens in antiquity, arranged according to the Attic calendar . BG Teubner, Leipzig 1898, p. 171.
- ↑ Pausanias 9:17 , 2.