Metapus

An Athenian who is said to have introduced at Thebes the worship of the Cabeiri. He was much skilled in all kinds of mysteries and orgies, and made several alterations in the mysteries at Andania.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece iv, 1.5.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Welcker. Die Aeschylische Trilogie, p. 270.

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