Agetor

Agetor (Greek Ἀγήτωρ, "leader" ) is an epiclesis of several Greek deities.

In Sparta Agetor Zeus was worshiped, he had a fire altar on which the king made ​​an offering before the start of a campaign and a torch at the fire lit, which was carried before the army in battle. In a scholium to Theocritus are actually the Karneios, or Apollo Karneios, celebrated in honor Karneien in Sparta connected with Zeus Agetor. One explanation for this is that one Zeus Agetor the undressing army progressing introduced himself why he was connected to the militarily organized festival in the Spartan cult. In a commentary in Hesychius of Alexandria, a priest of the Karneen Agetes ( Ἀγητής ) and in this context the Karneen Agetoria be called ( Ἀγητόρια ). In the scholium to Theocritus there is the message Theopompus, after the Apollo Karneios in Argos Zeus and Hegetor ( Ἑγήτωρ ) was called.

According to Pausanias, stood in a sanctuary in Megalopolis a statue of Hermes Agetor beside statues of Apollo, Athena, Poseidon, Helios and Heracles, where these gods mysteries along the lines of the Attic Mysteries of Eleusis were performed in honor.

In Cyprus, the priest Agetor, who led the victim of Aphrodite said. Whether in Hesychius mentioned there celebrated event Agetoria of Aphrodite or any of the three gods bearing the nickname was, is unclear.