Alipherus

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Mythology

Alipherus and his siblings were the most nefarious and carefree of all people. To test them, Zeus visited them in the form of a peasant. These brothers mixed the entrails of a child into the god's meal, whereupon the enraged king of the gods threw the meal over the table. Alipherus was killed, along with his brothers and their father, by a lightning bolt of the god.[5]

The town of Aliphera in Greece was traditionally believed to have been founded by this Alipherus, and to have derived its name from him.[6]

Notes

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  2. Pausanias, 8.26.6
  3. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.13.1
  4. Pausanias, 8.17.6
  5. Apollodorus, 3.8.1
  6. Pausanias, 8.3.1 & 8.26.4; Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Aliphera (Ἀλίφηρα)

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