Agetor

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Agetor (Gr. Ἀγήτωρ) was an epithet given to seve­ral gods of Greek mythology,[1] for instance, to Zeus at Lacedaemon.[2] The name seems to describe Zeus as the leader and ruler of men, although others think that it is synonymous with another epithet of Zeus: Agamemnon. Agetor was also an epithet of Apollo, although some writers, such as Peter Elmsley, think this epithet was not Agetor but Hagetor (ἁγήτωρ).[3] Finally, it was also an epithet applied to Hermes, who conducts the souls of men to the lower world. Under this name Hermes had a statue at Megalopolis.[4]

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  1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), “Agetor”, in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 71 
  2. ^ Stobaeus, Sermones 42
  3. ^ Euripides, Medea 426
  4. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece viii. 31. § 4

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).