Theoxenius

A surname of Apollo and Hermes. An ἀγών (agōn; see Agon), or contest or competition, called Theoxenia was also celebrated at Pellene in Achaea in honor of Hermes and Apollo, with money as the prizes of victory, but no other particulars of this festival are known.

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References

Sources

  • Pausanias. Description of Greece vii, 27.4.
  • Scholiast on Pindar's Olympian Odes ix, 146; Nemean Odes x, 32.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.