DOI chapter:
The mythology of Athenian local cults
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MYTHOLOGY AND MONUMENTS
appears. Androgeos was the object of a local cult at Phalerum.
Pausanias (i. i) saw there an altar of Androgeos, son of Minos,
which only bore the name of a hero-altar; but he adds—-
“Those who take pains to know about their native antiquities
accurately, know that it is the altar of Androgeos, son of Minos.”
Possibly Androgeos was a hero of high note till the Theseus
FIG. 26.—CHACHRYLION CYLIX (CENTRE) I THESEUS AND ARIADNE (BRITISH MUSEUM).
legend got the upper hand, then the Androgeos cult would
naturally sink, and it would be considered wiser not to give his
altar a name become obnoxious.
As early as Simonides, if we may trust Plutarch, the agree-
ment about the diverse coloured sails was known. Simonides
says that ./Egeus gave a scarlet, not a white sail to be set up
MYTHOLOGY AND MONUMENTS
appears. Androgeos was the object of a local cult at Phalerum.
Pausanias (i. i) saw there an altar of Androgeos, son of Minos,
which only bore the name of a hero-altar; but he adds—-
“Those who take pains to know about their native antiquities
accurately, know that it is the altar of Androgeos, son of Minos.”
Possibly Androgeos was a hero of high note till the Theseus
FIG. 26.—CHACHRYLION CYLIX (CENTRE) I THESEUS AND ARIADNE (BRITISH MUSEUM).
legend got the upper hand, then the Androgeos cult would
naturally sink, and it would be considered wiser not to give his
altar a name become obnoxious.
As early as Simonides, if we may trust Plutarch, the agree-
ment about the diverse coloured sails was known. Simonides
says that ./Egeus gave a scarlet, not a white sail to be set up