Anchesmius

A surname of Zeus derived from the hill Anchesmus in Attica, on which, as on several Attic hills, there was a statue of the god.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 32.2.
  • 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.