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🌍 Rhamnous (Attica)

  • <span class="a type-6581" data-type_id="6581" data-object_id="11291446" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6581_11291446">📖 Pausanias 7.5.2-7.5.3</span>
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    town in Attica
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/580097
    Cult site of
    👤 Nemesis personification of retribution
    Encompasses
    🏛️ the Temple of Nemesis at Rhamnous (Attica) 🎨 Cult Statue of Nemesis from Rhamnous, by Agoracritus (LIMC Agamemnon 4)
    Reported to have depictions of
    👤 Agamemnon commander of all Greek forces at Troy👤 Castor (Spartan) one of the Dioscouroi, Calydonian boar hunter, Argonaut👤 Hermione (Spartan) daughter of Menelaos and Helen👤 Helen Helen of Troy👤 Polydeuces (Spartan) one of the Dioscouroi, Calydonian Boar hunter, Argonaut👤 Leda mother of Helen👤 Menelaos son of Atreus, husband of Helen👤 Nemesis personification of retribution👤 Neoptolemos son of Achilles👤 Tyndareos king of Sparta🌍 River Oceanos (unlocatable) river encircling the world🌍 the Land of the Ethiopians region in Upper Egypt and south of Sub-Saharan Africa, often amorphous or treated as somewhat fictional👤 Epochos (Attic) one of two brothers of Oinoe👤 Hippeus (Spartan) attendant to Tyndareos and his children👤 Brother of Oinoe (name unknown) depicted with Epochos on the statue of Nemesis at Rhamnous
    Related entities
    👤 Nemesis personification of retribution👤 Helen Helen of Troy🌍 the Sanctuary of Amphiaraos near Oropos (Boiotia) near Oropos on the Boiotia-Attica border
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pausanias 1.33.2📖 Callimachus, Hymn to Artemis 225-258📖 Pomponius Mela 2.46📖 Ovid, Metamorphoses 3.339-3.510
    Mentioned in text
    PausaniasCallimachus, Hymn to ArtemisPomponius MelaOvid, Metamorphoses
    Reported to have local traditions about
    👤 Oceanos (Titan) Titan, personification of Ocean👤 Nemesis personification of retribution
    Local traditions reported by
    📖 Pausanias 7.5.2-7.5.3
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