Euhemerus

Euhemerus in Wikipedia

Euhemerus (Ancient Greek: Εὐήμερος [Euhēmeros], 'happy; prosperous') (late fourth century B.C.) was a Greek mythographer at the court of Cassander, the king of Macedon. Euhemerus' birthplace is disputed, with Messina in Sicily as the most probable location, while others champion Chios, or Tegea. Euhemerism He is chiefly known for a rationalizing m...

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Euhemĕrus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

(Εὐήμερος). A native of Messena, as is generally supposed, though perhaps of Messana. Being sent on a voyage of discovery by Cassander, king of Macedon, about B.C. 316, he came, as he himself asserted, to an island called Panchaea, in the capital of which, Panara, he found a temple of the Triphylian Zeus, where stood a column inscribed with a regis...

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