Athena Alea

Alea (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέα) was an epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, prominent in Arcadian mythology, under which she was worshiped at Alea, Mantineia and Tegea.^[1]^[2] Alea was initially an independent goddess, but was eventually assimilated with Athena.^[3] A statue of Athena Alea existed on the road from Sparta to Therapne.^[4] Her most important sanctuary was the famous Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea.

Notes

^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). . In William Smith (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 108–109. Archived from the original on 2008-06-04. Retrieved 2008-07-09.
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece viii. 23. § 1, 9. § 3, ii. 17. § 7
^ Jost, Madeleine (1996). "Arcadian cults and myths". In Hornblower, Simon (ed.). Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
^ Pausanias, Description of Greece iii. 19. 3 7

Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

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