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  • -4xx / unknown

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  • altar
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Altar of the Temple of Amphiaraos

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Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.34.3:

OROPUS

...The altar shows parts. One part is to Heracles, Zeus, and Apollo Healer, another is given up to heroes and to wives of heroes, the third is to Hestia and Hermes and Amphiaraus and the children of Amphilochus. But Alcmaeon, because of his treatment of Eriphyle, is honored neither in the temple of Amphiaraus nor yet with Amphilochus. The fourth portion of the altar is to Aphrodite and Panacea, and further to Iaso, Health and Athena Healer. The fifth is dedicated to the nymphs and to Pan, and to the rivers Achelous and Cephisus. The Athenians too have an altar to Amphilochus in the city, and there is at Mallus in Cilicia an oracle of his which is the most trustworthy of my day1.

References

  1. ↑ Pausanias, Description of Greece 1.34

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2016-03-19) , last updated by René Voorburg (2024-09-29), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/26040
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Suggested citation: , E. and Voorburg, R., Altar of the Temple of Amphiaraos. https://vici.org/vici/26040, accessed 2026-10-25.