Acraea

"Of the height." Acraea and the male form Acraeus are epithets given to various goddesses and gods whose temples were situated upon hills, among whom Aphrodite, Artemis, Hera, Pallas, and Zeus.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 13; ii, 24.1.
  • Pseudo-Apollodorus. The Library i, 9.28.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Spanheim, on Callimachus' Hymn to Zeus, 82.
  • Vitruvius. On Architecture i, 7.