Cook, Arthur Bernard, 1868-1952 · Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press · leaf 309
age (presumably a pyramid-on-pillar) of the usual Arcadian typel Moreover,there are scattered indications that something rather like the Erechtheion andits royal worship existed at one time in Tegea. Aleos, the founder of the town^was, like Erechtheus^*^, a quasi-divine king, whose head asshown on… … Fig. 966. lished his kingdom in connexion with her sanctuaryi*. This suggests that hestood to her in the same sort of relation as Erechtheus to xAthena Polids.Further hints help to fill in the picture : Athena Aim had a sacred couchin her temple ^^, was served by a boy-priest 1^, and on occasion…
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