Epidotes

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In Greek mythology, Epidotes (Ancient Greek: Ἐπιδώτης) was a divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon, and averted the anger of Zeus Hicesius (Template:Langx) for the crime committed by the Spartan general Pausanias.[1]

Epidotes, meaning the "liberal giver" or "bountiful", occurs also as an epithet of other divinities, such as Zeus at Mantineia and Sparta,[2] and of Hypnos and Oneiros at Sicyon, who had a statue in the temple of Asclepius there, which represented them in the act of sending a lion to sleep,[3] and lastly of the beneficent gods, to whom a second-century senator, Antoninus, built a sanctuary at Epidaurus.[4]

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  1. Pausanias, 3.17.8 (cited by Schmitz)
  2. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 8.9.1; Hesychius s.v. (cited by Schmitz)
  3. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.10.3 (cited by Schmitz)
  4. Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 2.27.7 (cited by Schmitz)

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