Agetor

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Agetor (

Lacedaemon.^[2] The name probably describes Zeus as the ruler of gods, humankind, and the universe in general. Agetor was also an epithet of Apollo.^[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]

Notes

^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Agetor", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 71.
^ Stobaeus. Sermones, 42.
^ Euripides, Medea 426
^ Pausanias, 8.31.4

References

Euripides, Medea with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1994. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
ISBN 0-674-99328-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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