Epidotes

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In Greek mythology, Epidotes (Ἐπιδώτης) was a divinity who was worshipped at Lacedaemon, and averted the anger of Zeus Hicesius (Greek: Ζευς Ικέσιος) for the crime committed by the Spartan general Pausanias.[1]

Epidotes, which means the "liberal giver," occurs also as an epithet of other divinities, such as Zeus at Mantineia and Sparta,[2] and of Hypnos and Oneiros at Sicyon, who had a statue in the temple of Asclepius there, which represented them in the act of sending a lion to sleep,[3] and lastly of the beneficent gods, to whom a second-century senator, Antoninus, built a sanctuary at Epidaurus.[4]
References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz (1870). Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

Footnotes

Pausanias iii. 17. § 8. (cited by Schmitz)
Pausanias viii. 9. § 1; Hesych. s. v. (cited by Schmitz)
Pausanias ii. 10. § 3 (cited by Schmitz)
Pausanias ii. 27. § 7. (cited by Schmitz)