![]() ![]() TAENARUM (TAINARON) Village in Lacedaemonia (Lakedaimonia) There is a temple to Helios (Sun), another to the Kharites (Graces)."ĬULT IN LACEDAEMONIA (SOUTHERN GREECE) I. There is also another sanctuary of Athena, of no great size, the roof of which has fallen in. They still have sanctuaries here: one of Poseidon at the east end of the spit, and a temple of Athena. "Here the Hermionians had their former city. "They had every reason, it seems to me, for making an altar to Helios Eleutherios (God of Freedom), seeing that they escaped being enslaved by Xerxes and the Persians." ![]() Thyestes agreed, and Helios put his setting where he usually rose." "Zeus then sent Hermes to Atreus and told him to get Thyestes to agree that Atreus should rule, if Helios (the Sun) should journey backwards. Aldrich) (Greek mythographer C2nd A.D.) : Further on is a river called Inakhos, and on the other side of it an altar of Helios." "A little beyond the Rams-this is the name they give to the tomb of Thyestes-there is on the left a place called Mysia and a sanctuary of Demeter Mysia. is built an altar to Pan, and one to Helios (Sun) made of white marble."ĬULT IN ARGOLIS (SOUTHERN GREECE) I. Behind the sanctuary of Hera he built an altar to Pan, and one to Helios (Sun) made of white marble. "They say that the sanctuary of Artemis and Apollon was made by Epopeus, and that of Hera after it by Adrastos. SICYON (SIKYON) Main Town of Sicyonia (Sikyonia) After these are altars to Helios, and a sanctuary of Ananke (Necessity) and Bia (Force), into which it is not customary to enter."ĬULT IN SICYONIA (SOUTHERN GREECE) I. As you go up this Akrokorinthos you see two precincts of Isis, one if Isis surnamed Pelagin (Marine) and the other of Egyptian Isis, and two of Serapis, one of them being of Serapis called Of Kanopos. "The Akrokorinthos is a mountain peak above the city, assigned to Helios by Briareos when he acted as adjudicator, and handed over, the Korinthians say, by Helios to Aphrodite. "On leaving the market-place along the road to Lekhaion you come to a gateway, on which are two gilded chariots, one carrying Phaethon the son of Helios, the other Helios (the Sun) himself." "The Korinthians say that Poseidon had a dispute with Helios about the land, and that Briareos arbitrated between them, assigning to Poseidon the Isthmos and the parts adjoining, and giving to Helios the height above the city. CORINTH (KORINTHOS) Main City of Corinthia (Korinthia) Then he said : ‘Now, O king, go on with your sacrifice in accordance with your own traditions, for my traditions are such as you see.’Īnd he quitted the scene of sacrifice in order not to be present at the shedding of blood."ĬULT IN CORINTHIA (SOUTHERN GREECE) I. But Apollonios replied : ‘Do you, O king, go on with your sacrifice, in your own way, but permit me to sacrifice in mine.’Īnd he took up a handful of frankincense and said : ‘O thou Helios, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.’Īnd with these words he threw the frankincense into the fire, and watched to see how the smoke of it curled upwards, and how it grew turbid, and in how many points it shot up and in a manner he caught the meaning of the fire, and watched how it appeared of good omen and pure. " Apollonios approached and saluted him, the king was addressed him in the Greek language and invited him to sacrifice with him and it chanced that he was on the point of sacrificing to Helios the Sun as a victim a horse of the true Nisaian breed, which he had adorned with trappings as if for a triumphal procession. Conybeare) (Greek biography C1st to 2nd A.D.) : Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1. I am aware that the Persians also are wont to offer the same sacrifice." "Among the sacrifices they offer to Helios are horses. White horses were traditionally sacrificed to the sun-god. Ancient writers named it as one of the Seven Wonders of the world. The most famous statue of the god was the Colossus of Rhodes which stood at the entrance of the island's main harbour. His two main cult centres were the island or Rhodes and the city of Korinthos (Corinth). He possessed relatively few shrines and temples in ancient Greece. Sol Helius, Greco-Roman mosaic, Archaeological Museum of Sparta
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