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Acraea (Ancient Gr****: Ἀκραία
means 'of the heights' from akraios) was a name that had
several uses in Gr**** and
Roman mythology. Acraea, the
naiad daughter...
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Euripides that
Medea buried her
murdered children at a
sanctuary of Hera
Akraia as she fled from Corinth. This may be a
reference to this site. Herodotus...
- Αρχηγέτις (Archēgetis), 'founder',
leader of the
settlement at Samos. Ἀκραῖα (
Akraìa) '(She) of the
Heights (Akropolis)' Βουναία (Bounaia) '(She) of the Mound'...
- goddess; the
oldest is to her as
Doritis (Bountiful ), the next in age as
Akraia (Of the Height),
while the
newest is to the
Aphrodite called Knidia by men...
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mythological figures Aconteus Ἀκόντιος the name of
several mythological figures Akraia Ἀκραία the name of
several mythological figures Acraepheus Ἀκραιφεύς a son...
- the 1960s. This work was
written up as Perachora: the
sanctuaries of Hera
Akraia and Limenia,
mostly by Payne,
edited by
Thomas Dunbabin to be published...
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Active Laurel 1924 West
Virginia University Morgantown, West
Virginia Active Akraia 1924
University of
Vermont Burlington,
Vermont Active Theta Gamma 1925 University...
- Hera
Heraion of Argos, near
Nafplion in
Argolis Heraion of
Perachora (Hera
Akraia and Hera Limenia), near
Corinth Temple of Hera (Olympia)
Heraion of Metapontum...
- korwa,
Laconian kyrsanis (Ἀκρέα,
epithet of
Aphrodite in Cyprus,
instead of
Akraia, of the heights).
Epithet of a
goddess from an
archaic Corcyraic inscription...
- 162–166. Johnston,
Sarah Iles (1997), "Corinthian
Medea and the Cult of Hera
Akraia," in Medea:
Essays on
Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art, Princeton...
