Irbos

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Irbos ( Greek  Ἴρβος ) is a person from Greek mythology .

According to Pausanias, Irbos was the son of the Lacedaemonian Amphisthenes and thus a great-grandson of the mythical Spartan king Agis . His sons were Alopekos and Astrabakos , who went mad together 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 being 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

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