Enagonios

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Enagonios ( ancient Greek Ἐναγώνιος ) is an epiclesis of several Greek deities with which they were worshiped as gods of the Palaistra and the Agone . Deities who were invoked for assistance in the success of agons also carried the epiclesis Agonios ( Ἀγώνιος ). In particular, Hermes was the bearer of this epithet.

In Greek literature there is almost only Hermes as the carrier of the epics reading. He is mentioned as Enagonios in the Orphic Hymns , the choral lyricists Pindar , Simonides and Philoxenos of Kythira , the playwrights Aeschylus and Aristophanes , and the late antique epic poet Nonnos . He appears as Agonios at Pindar. A cult of Hermes Enagonios is documented in inscriptions in Athens and Eleusis , on Lesbos and in Pisidia , Hermes Agonios appears on an inscription from Sparta . Only one cult of Hermes Enagonios in the Zeus sanctuary in Olympia , handed down by Pausanias, is literary known, which lists the Olympic altars chronologically according to the sacrifices made during the year. Monthly sacrifices were made on the altar of Hermes Enagonios after the altar of the Mother of Gods (presumably Rhea ) and in front of the altar of Kairos .

Zeus as Agonios is only recorded in Sophocles , Apollon in Erythrai , Dionysus in Magnesia and Aphrodite in Athens appear as Enagonios . In Philostratus also will flow God Acheloos provided with the nickname.

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  1. ↑ Hesychios of Alexandria sv ἀγώνιοι θεοί ; Aeschylus; Agamemnon 491.
  2. ↑ Orphic Hymn 27: 2.
  3. ^ Pindar, Pythien 2, 18 with Scholion .
  4. ↑ Philoxenus in the Anthologia Palatina 9, 319.
  5. ^ Aeschylus, fragment 384. In: August Nauck : Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta , 2nd edition. Teubner, Leipzig 1889.
  6. ↑ Aristophanes, Plutos 1161.
  7. ↑ Nonnos, Dionysiaka 10, 337; 49, 231.
  8. ^ Pindar, Isthmia 1, 60.
  9. ↑ a b Otto Jessen: Enagonios . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity .
  10. ↑ Georg Wentzel: Agonios . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classical antiquity .
  11. ^ Pausanias 5:14 , 9.
  12. ↑ Sophocles, Die Trachinierinnen 26 with Scholion.
  13. ↑ Flavius ​​Philostratos, Heroicus 292; 678.