Callignotus

Family: Megalopolis · Role: religious founder · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 31

At Megalopolis, Callignotus and Mentas, Sosigenes, and Polus are said to have first instituted the worship of the Great Goddesses, in imitation of the Eleusinian Mysteries.

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• Callignotus, Mentas, Sosigenes, and Polus instituted worship of the Great Goddesses at Megalopolis.(Book 8 · Chapter 31 · 📍 Megalopolis)
  • With: Mentas Sosigenes Polus
  • “who are said to have first instituted at Megalopolis the worship of the Great Goddesses”

Book 8 · Chapter 31

• with Mentas (They jointly instituted the worship of the Great Goddesses.) “There are also in a room some statues of Callignotus and Mentas and Sosigenes and Polus, who are said to have first instituted at Megalopolis the worship of the Great Goddesses, which is an imitation of the Eleusinian Mysteries.”
• with Sosigenes (They jointly instituted the worship of the Great Goddesses.) “There are also in a room some statues of Callignotus and Mentas and Sosigenes and Polus, who are said to have first instituted at Megalopolis the worship of the Great Goddesses, which is an imitation of the Eleusinian Mysteries.”
• with Polus (They jointly instituted the worship of the Great Goddesses.) “There are also in a room some statues of Callignotus and Mentas and Sosigenes and Polus, who are said to have first instituted at Megalopolis the worship of the Great Goddesses, which is an imitation of the Eleusinian Mysteries.”
• with Demeter (Callignotus is said to have instituted worship of Demeter as one of the Great Goddesses.) “There are also in a room some statues of Callignotus and Mentas and Sosigenes and Polus, who are said to have first instituted at Megalopolis the worship of the Great Goddesses, which is an imitation of the Eleusinian Mysteries.”
• with Proserpine (Callignotus is said to have instituted worship of Proserpine as one of the Great Goddesses.) “There are also in a room some statues of Callignotus and Mentas and Sosigenes and Polus, who are said to have first instituted at Megalopolis the worship of the Great Goddesses, which is an imitation of the Eleusinian Mysteries.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.