Heracles Patroos (Πατρῷος ancestor) is the divine epithet of Heracles in ancient Macedonia. A throne in Vergina palace, probably religious in function, is dedicated to Heracles Patroos . Patroos is also an epithet of Apollo and Zeus in other regions of ancient Greece.
Θεῶι Πατρώιωι Ἡρακλ[εῖ] To God Ancestor Heracles[1]
^Philippi ,marble plaque with relief representation of a rider. SEG 48:836
HeraclesPatroos . Patroos is also an epithet of Apollo and Zeus in other regions of ancient Greece. Θεῶι Πατρώιωι Ἡρακλ[εῖ] To God Ancestor Heracles...
Κήναιος). It was here, Sophocles tells us, that Heracles dedicated altars to Ζεύς Πατρῴος (Zeus Patroos), made sacrifices, and donned the Shirt of Nessus...
gigantomachy, Apollo and Heracles blinded the giant Ephialtes by shooting him in his eyes, Apollo shooting his left and Heracles his right. He also killed...
other important exhibits of the room counts a statue of Apollo in the Patroos type and the statue of a man wearing the himation, dated to the 5th century...
under-world, of Athena and of Heracles. The Marathonians, according to their own account, were the first to regard Heracles as a god. Of the fighters the...
located in the northern portion of the Agora, east of the Temple of Apollo Patroos and north of the Odeon of Agrippa, with which it is aligned. An inscription...
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