Aeginaea

A surname of Artemis, under which she was worshiped at Sparta. The name means either the huntress of chamois, or the wielder of the javelin, αἰγανέα (aiganea).

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 14.2.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.