Acraea (Epithet)

Acraea and Acraeus are also epithets given to various goddesses and gods whose temples were situated upon hills, such as Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, Pallas, Artemis, and others.

Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio 1.1.3 & 2.24.1
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.9.28
Vitruv. i. 7
Ezechiel Spanheim, In Callimachi hymnos observationes, in Jov. 82.

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