Hyperteleatas
Hyperteleatas or Hyperteleates ( ancient Greek Ύπερτελεάτας or Ύπερτελεάτης ) is an epiclesis of the Greek god Apollo , with whom he in Hyperteleaton in Laconia was revered as a healing deity.
During excavations near Phoinike in 1885 Stephanos Kumanudes excavated a temple of Apollon Hyperteleatas. In it were bronze strips on which the names of priests and "Pyrophoroi" and decrees for the implementation of unspecified agons were. Furthermore, votive offerings addressed to Apollon Hyperteleatas in inscriptions were found. Most of the inscriptions come from the Roman Empire , but some finds can be dated back to the Archaic era. Martin Persson Nilsson suggested looking into the “pyrophoroi” torchbearers who had to bring the fire, considered sacred, from the sanctuary where it was lit to the site of the agon.
Pausanias mentions the place of worship Hyperteleaton, 50 stages away from Phoinike, as an Asklepieion , but does not mention Apollon. At the time of Pausanias in the 2nd century AD, Apollo may already have been ousted by the healing deity Asklepios .
literature
- Wilhelm Drexler : Hyperteleates . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, Col. 2845 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Otto Jessen : Hyperteleatas. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, column 322 ( digitized version ).
- Conrad M. Stibbe : Laconian Bronzes from the Sanctuary of Apollo Hyperteleatas near Phoiniki (Laconia) and from the Acropolis of Athens . In: Babesch : annual papers on classical archeology 83. 2008, pp. 17–45.
