Sosipolis
Family: Elis · Role: tutelary deity · First appears: Book 6 · Chapter 20
When the Arcadians invaded Elis, a baby offered to defend the city was changed into a dragon. After the battle, the people of Elis won a notable victory and called the god Sosipolis; they built a temple to worship him jointly with Ilithyia.
In Book 6, Chapter 25, Sosipolis was honoured in a small shrine to the left of Fortune. He was represented as a boy in a star-covered, particoloured cloak, holding the horn of Amalthea.
Relationship record
Life events
- A baby offered to defend Elis transformed into a dragon.(Book 6 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Elis)
- “the child was changed into a dragon”
- The people of Elis defeated the Arcadians and named the god Sosipolis.(Book 6 · Chapter 20 · 📍 Elis)
- “the people of Elis pursued them hotly, and won a notable victory and called the god Sosipolis.”
- A temple was built to worship Sosipolis and Ilithyia jointly.(Book 6 · Chapter 20)
- With: Ilithyia
- “they built a temple, and resolved to worship it and Ilithyia jointly”
Book 6 · Chapter 20
- with Ilithyia (Jointly worshipped deities.) “they built a temple, and resolved to worship it and Ilithyia jointly”
Book 6 · Chapter 25
- with Fortune (Sosipolis is honored beside Fortune.) “Here too Sosipolis is honoured on the left of Fortune, in a rather small shrine”
- with Amalthea (Sosipolis is represented holding Amalthea's horn.) “and in one of his hands the horn of Amalthea”
- with Fortune (Sosipolis is honoured beside Fortune.) “Here too Sosipolis is honoured on the left of Fortune, in a rather small shrine: represented, according to the appearance of him seen in a dream, as a boy with a particoloured cloak on covered with stars, and in one of his hands the horn of Amalthea.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.