Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion: A Study in Survivals

by J. C. Lawson

[1479] Athen. VI. p. 253 A. Shortly afterwards he quotes a song (253 D) in which it is the name of Demeter which is coupled with that of Demetrius.

[1480] Athen. VI. 253 A, and 261 B.

[1481] Glycon was Alexander’s new god, a re-incarnation of Asclepius, born in the form of a snake out of an egg discovered by Alexander.

[1482] A superstitious old Roman entrapped by Alexander.

[1483] Lucian, Alexander seu Pseudomantis, cap. 38–39 (II. 244 ff.).

[1484] See Miss J. Harrison, op. cit. pp. 549 ff.

[1485] Paton, Inscr. of Cos, 386, cited by Rouse, Greek Votive Offerings, p. 246.

[1486] Plutarch, Conjug. Praec. ad init.

[1487] Schol. ad Soph. Antig. 1241.

[1488] Photius, Lex. Rhet. Vol. II. p. 670 (ed. Porson), cited by Farnell, Cults of the Greek States, I. p. 245.