Samius

A surname of Poseidon, derived from his temples in Samos and Samicon in Elis.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece vi, 25.5.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.
  • Strabo. Geography xiv, p. 637; comp. viii, pp. 343, 347.

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