Larissaeus

And Larissaea (Λαρισσαῖα), surnames of Zeus and Apollo, derived from the arx Larissa at Argos,1 and of Athena, who derived it from the river Larissus, between Elis and Achaea, where the goddess had a sanctuary.2

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 24.4; Strabo. Geography ix, p. 440, xiv, 649; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Larissa.
  2. Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 17.3.

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.