A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Ἐκεχειρία), that is, the armistice or truce, which was personified and represented as a divine being at the entrance of the tempie of Zeus at Olympia; there was a statue of Iphitus, which Ececheiria was in the act of crowning. (Paus. 5.10.3, 26.2.)

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