Alkidemos or ''Alcidemos'' (defender of the people,
demos
Demos may refer to:
Computing
* DEMOS, a Soviet Unix-like operating system
* DEMOS (ISP), the first internet service provider in the USSR
* Demos Commander, an Orthodox File Manager for Unix-like systems
* plural for Demo (computer programming)
...
) is a divine epithet, attested only by the Roman historian
Livy
Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Ancient Rome, Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditiona ...
(42.51), for the goddess
Athena
Athena or Athene, often given the epithet Pallas, is an ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and handicraft who was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Minerva. Athena was regarded as the patron and protectress of ...
worshipped at
Pella,
Macedon
Macedonia (; grc-gre, Μακεδονία), also called Macedon (), was an ancient kingdom on the periphery of Archaic and Classical Greece, and later the dominant state of Hellenistic Greece. The kingdom was founded and initially ruled by ...
ia. A similar Macedonian epithet of Athena was ''Alcis''. Athena Alkidemos with thunderbolt and shield (
aegis
The aegis ( ; grc, αἰγίς ''aigís''), as stated in the ''Iliad'', is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon. There may be a connection with a d ...
) was a usual depiction in Hellenistic
tetradrachms.
References
*Coins of the Macedonians By Martin Price Page 27
External links
*
Antigonos Gonatas Tetradrachm
Alkidemos
Religion in ancient Macedonia
Indo-Greek religions and philosophy
Ancient Pella
Hellenistic deities
Ancient Greek military art
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