Lysizona

I.e. the goddess who loosens the girdle, is a surname of Artemis and Eileithyia, who were worshiped under this name at Athens.

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References

Sources

  • Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius, i, 287.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Theocritus, xvii, 60.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.