Eurysternos

That is, the goddess with a broad chest, is a surname of Gaea,1 under which she had a sanctuary on the Crathis near Aegae in Achaea, with a very ancient statue.2

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References

Notes

  1. Hesiod. Theogony, 117.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 25.8; v, 14.8.

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.