Agetor

Agetor (Ancient Greek: polytonic|Ἀγήτωρ) was an epithet given to seve­ral gods of Greek mythology,Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Agetor | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 71 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0080.html.] for instance, to Zeus at Lacedaemon. [Stobaeus. "Sermones", 42.] The name seems to describe Zeus as the leader and ruler of men, although others think that it is synonymous with another epithet of Zeus: Agamemnon. Agetor was also an epithet of Apollo, although some writers, such as Peter Elmsley, think this epithet was not "Agetor" but "Hagetor" (polytonic|ἁγήτωρ). [Euripides. "Medea, 426.] Finally, it was also an epithet applied to Hermes, who conducts the souls of men to the lower world. Under this name Hermes had a statue at Megalopolis. [Pausanias. "Description of Greece", viii. 31. § 4.]

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