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Sunday, June 17, 2007

Averters of Evil

I've started to compile a list of passages from ancient Greek authors and inscriptions in which the following epithets are applied to gods:
  • ἀλεξήτωρ (alexētōr)
  • ἀλεξίκακος (alexikakos)
  • ἀλεξητήριος (alexētērios)
  • ἀπαλεξίκακος (apalexikakos)
  • ἀποτρόπαιος (apotropaios)
  • ἀπωσίκακος (apōsikakos)
So far the gods include:
  • Anonymous
  • Apollo
  • Athena
  • Hermes
  • Heracles
  • Zeus
The list is far from complete, but it's too big for a blog post, so I put it on a separate web page which I'll update as time permits.