Agathodaemon

Also Agathos Deos (Ἀγαθὸς Δεὸς), the "Good God," a divinity in honor of whom the Greeks drank a cup of unmixed wine at the end of every repast. A temple dedicated to him was situated on the road from Megalopolis to Maenalus in Arcadia. Pausanias1 conjectures that the name is a mere epithet of Zeus.

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References

Notes

  1. Description of Greece viii, 36.3.

Sources

  • Comp. Lobeck, on Phrynichus, p. 603.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.