Echembrotus () was an ancient
Arcadian Greek
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Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe:
*Greeks, an ethnic group
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lyricist and poet. According to
Pausanias, Echembrotus offered a bronze tripod to
Heracles
Heracles ( ; ), born Alcaeus (, ''Alkaios'') or Alcides (, ''Alkeidēs''), was a Divinity, divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of ZeusApollodorus1.9.16/ref> and Alcmene, and the foster son of Amphitryon.By his adoptive descent through ...
when the latter won at the Amphictyonic Games.
[Pausanias. '']Description of Greece
''Description of Greece'' () is the only surviving work by the ancient "geographer" or tourist Pausanias (geographer), Pausanias (c. 110 – c. 180).
Pausanias' ''Description of Greece'' comprises ten books, each of them dedicated to some ...
'', 10.7.6 - ''Echemrotus of Arcadia dedicated this pleasant gift to Heracles, When he won a victory at the games of the Amphictyons, Singing for the Greeks tunes and lamentations.''
References
External links
Echembrotus Inscription- Echembrotus Inscription from Demonax
Ancient Arcadian poets
Ancient Greek lyric poets
Heracles
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