Hegemone

That is, the leader or ruler, one of the Athenian Charites. She was invoked by the Athenian youths, the ephebes (ἔφηβοι), when they took their civic oath. She was worshiped jointly with Auxo.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece ix, 35.2.
  • Pollux, viii, 106.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.