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Names And Epithets

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Agathos Antinoos, O Agathos Antinoos - (Greek: , )Antinous the Good

- "...as coins and inscriptions proudly proclaim, 'Antinous the Good'." (Royston Lambert in hiswork Beloved and God, 1984, p.3).

- "Coins: Hadrianotherai, Juliopolis as agathos...Statue as Agathodaimon in Berlin." (Lambert, p.244, note 2 to Chapter One, referring to the above quotation)

- see

Hrs Agathoslexicon entry for Agathos.

Hrs- (Greek: , : Iros) Hero

- as Antinous is described on almost all the coins. (Jns p. 80)

- , hero. 2. the Fourth Age of men. 3. heroes, as objects of worship, esp. of local deities,founders of cities, patrons of tribes; at Athens, . heroes after whom the werenamed; of historical persons to whom divine honours were paid, as Brasidas at Amphipoli. (L&Sp.778, right column)

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- Hero, = , a demi-God, hero. (LD p.850, left column)

Hrs Agathos- (Greek: , : Iros Agathos) Good Hero

- as Antinous was described on coins from Hadrianoutherai. (Jns p. 80)

- good: I. of persons, 1. well-born, gentle. 2. brave, valiant, since courage wasattributed to Chiefs and Nobles. 3. good, capable. 4. good, in moral sense. (L&S p.4, rightcolumn)

Hrs Propylaios- (Greek: , : Iros Propylaios) TheHero Before the Gates

- as Antinous was described on coins from Delphi. (Jns p. 80)

- -,before the gate, of the statues of Gods. II , , gateway, entrance, ofEgyptian temples; on the Acropolis at Athens; at Epidaurus. (L&S p.1496, left column)

Iacchos Antinoos- (Greek: ) as Antinous was described on coins fromAdramyttion. (Jns p. 80). At Eleusis he was also identified with Iacchosand as an intermediary

between worlds. (Jns, p. 79) You will find this word Iacchos spelled Iacchusand Iakkhos. Theword is often, but not always, an epithet of Dionysos or chthonic (terrestrial) Hermes. Iacchosisalso called Dysaulos, who is a demi-God of the Eleusinian Mysteries, the father of Triptolemusand Eubuleus, and a brother of Celeus. Iacchosis sometimes called Thesmophoros (ed. theLawgiver).

Here follows some definitions and quotes:

- Iacchus - name of Dionysos, from the noise and shouts which theBacchanals raised at his festivals; or, from the clamor attendant onintoxication. (CM p.182)

- Iacchus - a poetic and mystical appellation of Bacchus (LD p.874, leftcolumn)

- "Now most of the Greeks assigned to Dionysos, Apollon, Hecate, theMuses, and above all to Demeter, everything of an orgiastic or Bakkhic orchoral nature, as well as the mystic element in initiations; and they givethe name Iakkhos not only to Dionysus but also to the leader-in-chief ofthe mysteries, who is the genius (ed. daimon, spirit or attendant spirit) ofDemeter." (Strabo, Geography 10. 3. 10, trans. Jones, 1917)

- "Every year the Athenians observe this festival for the Mother (ed.Demetra) and the Maiden (ed. Persephone), and any Athenian or other

Hellene who wishes is initiated. The voice which you hear is the Iakkhos(George Rawlinson translates this "Dionysiac" but the actual word is) they cry at this festival." (Herodotus' Histories 8. 65. 4, trans.Godley, 1920)

Kalos Antinoos, O Kalos Antinoos - (Greek: , )Antinous the Good

- "...as coins and inscriptions proudly proclaim, 'Antinous the Good'. " (Royston Lambert in hiswork Beloved and God, 1984, p.3)

- "IG, XIV, 978a as kalos in the sense of beautiful and good." (Lambert, p. 244, note 2 toChapter One, referring to the above quotation)

- , beautiful, of outward form. 2. in Att. added to a name in token of love or admiration.

3. beauty.

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2. of sacrifices, auspicious.

III. in a moral sense, beautiful, noble, honourable.

2. . moral beauty, virtue, honour. (L&S p.870, left column)

New Iacchus- as Antinous was described on coins from Tarsus (Jns p. 80) See the entry for

Iacchos Antinoos.

Osirantinoos- Osiris Antinous. "A temple of this God, who is there called Osirantinoostheblessed, is found in it (ed. Antinoopolis) and is built of good white stone, with sphinxes around it,and statues and numerous columns, such as were made earlier by the ancestors (Egyptians),and such as were made by the Greeks." (from the west side of the Obeliscus Antinois, based onthe translations of the Egyptologists A. Erman and O. Wintermute, as found in Bwt, p. 246)

ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE ABOVE ENTRIES:

BNP= Bell's New Pantheon; or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-Gods, Heroes,and Fabulous Personages of Antiquity, 1790.

Bwt= Hadrian and the City of Rome by Mary Taliaferro Boatwright, 1987, PrincetonUniversity Press.

CM= A Classical Manual, Being a Mythological, Historical, and GeographicalCommentary on Pope's Homer, and Dryden's neid of Virgil, 1833. This very old andamazing reference book does not list an author.

DGRBM= A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, edited by WilliamSmith, 1880; 2007 I.B Tauris edition.

ed. = editor: the author of this website

Jns= New Heroes in Antiquity by Christopher P. Jones, 2010, Harvard University Press.

L&S= Greek-English Lexicon by H.G. Liddell and R. Scott, 1843; 1996 Clarendon Press

edition. LCD= Lemprire's Classical Dictionary of Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors,

1788; Third Edition, 1984 as found in the 1987 Routledge & Kegan Paul edition.

LD= A Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short, 1879; 1955 ClarendonPress edition.

Paus. = Pausanias' Description of Greece, translated by W. H. S. Jones, 1933. Thiswebsite is using the 1969 Loeb edition.