Coryphaea

The goddess who inhabits the summit of the mountain, a surname of Artemis, under which she had a temple on Mount Coryphaeon, near Epidaurus.1 It is also applied to designate the highest or supreme god, and is consequently given as an epithet to Zeus.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 281.2.
  2. ibid. ii, 4.5.

Source

  • 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.