Hegemone

"Leader." That is, the leader or ruler, a surname of Artemis at Sparta, and in Arcadia, near Acesium. She also had a sanctuary in Tegea, built by Chronius to whom she had appeared in a vision.

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References

Sources

  • Callimachus. Hymn to Artemis, 227.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iii, 14.6; viii, 37.7, 47.6.
  • Polyaenus, viii, 52.