Hera Alexandros

Alexandros (Gr. Ἀλέξανδρος), the "defender of men", was an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera, under which she was worshiped at Sicyon.[1][2] A temple had been built there to Hera Alexandros by Adrastus after his flight from Argos.[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexander". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 110.
  2. ↑ Lewis, Richard Farnell (1896). The Cults of the Greek States. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. p. 197.
  3. ↑ Scholiast, ad Pind. Nem. ix. 30
  4. ↑ Pseudo-Apollodorus, iii. 12. § 5

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