Acratopotes

The drinker of unmixed wine, a hero worshiped in Munychia in Attica. According to Pausanias, who calls him Acratus, he was a daemon attendant upon Apollo. Pausanias saw his face worked into a wall at in the house of Polytion in Athens. Cp. Acratophorus.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 2.5.
  • Polemo ap. Athenaeus, ii, 39.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.