Eleutherios or Lefteris ( el, Ελευθέριος, "the liberator") is an epithet and formal attribution in the Greek pantheon, including: *

Dionysus In ancient Greek religion and myth, Dionysus (; grc, Διόνυσος ) is the god of the grape-harvest, winemaking, orchards and fruit, vegetation, fertility, insanity, ritual madness, religious ecstasy, festivity, and theatre. The Romans ...

* Eros * Zeus From Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa. # He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games, # and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus. # as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae. # His sons were Iasius. # and Pierus. He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis". # Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus. # Eleuther, one of the twenty sons of Lycaon. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia. # Eleuther, one of the Curetes, was said to have been the eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in Crete.

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It is also used as a first name in modern Greek (alternatively transliterated as Eleftherios, in the short form Lefteris): * Eleftherios Eleftheriou (born 1974), Cypriot football midfielder * Eleftherios Foulidis (born 1948), Greek iconographer, born in Drepano, Kozani * Eleftherios Mertakas (born 1985), Cypriot football midfielder * Eleftherios Papasymeon, Greek athlete who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens *

Eleftherios Poupakis Eleftherios "Lefteris" Poupakis (Greek: Ελευθέριος "Λευτέρης" Πουπάκης; born 28 February 1946) is a retired Greek footballer who played as a goalkeeper. During his career he played for Egaleo F.C., Olympiacos F.C., ...

(born 1946), retired Greek footballer *

Eleftherios Sakellariou Lefteris Sakellariou ( el, Λευτέρης Σακελλαρίου; born 17 February 1987) is a Greek footballer who plays as a left-back. Career Senior career Early years Sakellariou began his football career in the academy of Panathinaikos, ...

(born 1987), Greek footballer *

Eleftherios Venizelos Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos ( el, Ελευθέριος Κυριάκου Βενιζέλος, translit=Elefthérios Kyriákou Venizélos, ; – 18 March 1936) was a Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movem ...

(1864–1936), Greek revolutionary, statesman and charismatic leader in the early 20th century * Lefteris Pantazis (born 1955), Greek singer * Lefteris Papadopoulos (born 1935), Greek lyricist and journalist *

Lefteris Papadimitriou Lefteris Papadimitriou is a Greek composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also sk ...

, Greek composer and performer

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