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Alexanor (Greek Ἀλεξάνωρ) was a son of Machaon, and grandson of the Greek god Asclepius, who built to his grandfather a temple on the summit of Titane in the territory of Sicyon.1 Around it there were dwellings for the use of those who came to solicit the aid of the god.2 Alexanor himself too was worshiped there, and sacrifices were offered to him, but only after sunset.3
References
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexanor". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. Ed. William Smith. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 128.
- ^ Leake, William Martin (1830). Travels in the Morea. J. Murray, 377.
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece ii. 23. ~ 4, 11. ~ 6, &c.
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