Soter

"Savior." I.e. "the Savior" (Lat. Servator or Sospes), occurs as the surname of several divinities:

  1. of Zeus in Argos,1 at Troezene,2 in Laconia,3 at Messene,4 at Mantineia,5 at Megalopolis.6 The sacrifices offered to him were called σωτήρια (sōtēria);7
  2. of Helios;8
  3. of Bacchus.9

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References

Notes

  1. Pausanias. Description of Greece ii, 20.5.
  2. ibid. ii, 31.14.
  3. ibid. iii, 23.6.
  4. ibid. iv, 31.5.
  5. ibid. viii, 9.1.
  6. ibid. viii, 30.5; comp. Aristophanes. The Frogs, 1433; Pliny the Elder. Naturalis Historia xxxiv, 8.
  7. Plutarch. Aratus, 53.
  8. Pausanias. Description of Greece viii, 31.4.
  9. Lycophron. Alexandra, 206.

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.