Lecheates

That is, the protector of childbed, a surname of Zeus, who, as the father of Athena, was worshiped under this name at Aliphera.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 26.4.
  • 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.