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- Archegetes was notably an epithet of the Gr**** god Apollo, under which he was worshipped in several places, as at Naxos in Sicily, where Archegetes was...
- plural of ἀρχᾱγέτης, archāgétēs, Doric Gr**** form of Attic ἀρχηγέτης, archēgétēs, 'first/chief leader'. A Cadmid of Theban descent. According to Apollodorus...
- ə-POT-rə-PEE-əs; Ἀποτρόπαιος, Apotropaios), from ἀποτρέπειν, "to avert" Archegetes (/ɑːrˈkɛdʒətiːz/ ar-KEJ-ə-****; Ἀρχηγέτης, Arkhēgetēs), literally "founder"...
- Magna Graecia, Naxos was never a powerful city, but its temple of Apollo Archegetes, protecting deity of all the Gr**** colonies, gave it prominence in religious...
- through one or another of his various oracles. He acted as consulting archegetes (founder) at Delphi. Among his various functions, he was patron god of...
- was preserved by the dedication of an altar outside the town to Apollo Archegetes, the divine patron under whose authority the colony had sailed; and it...
- transgression as a spring sacred to Artemis at Plataea where Actaeon was a hero archegetes ("hero-founder") The righteous hunter, the companion of Artemis, seeing...
- founder Tlepolemus. In ancient Gr**** city foundation, the use of the archegetes in its double sense of both founder and progenitor of a political order...
- through one or another of his various oracles. Apollo acted as consulting archegetes (founder) at Delphi, and among his various functions, he was patron god...
- I, founder of the Agiad dynasty of the Kings of Sparta. The title of archēgetēs, "founding magistrate," was explicitly denied to Eurysthenes and Procles...