Eleutherios

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

From:

Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa.

[1] He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games,

[2] and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus.

[3] as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae.

[4] His sons were Iasius.

[5] and Pierus[citation needed]. 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".

[6] Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus.

[7] 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.

[8] 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):

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