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Astrabacus

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In Greek mythology Astrabacus is a Spartan, the son of Irbus (son of Amphisthenes, son of Amphicles, son of Agis I). He and his brother Alopecus found a wooden image of the goddess Artemis Orthia under a bush of willows; it was surrounded in such a way that it stood upright. Astrabacus had a hero-shrine in Sparta[1]

References

  1. ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.16.6, 3.16.9


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