Eleutherios
Appearance
Eleutherios or Lefteris (Greek: Ελευθέριος, "the liberator") is an epithet and formal attribution in the Greek pantheon, including:
From Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa.
- He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games,
- and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus.
- as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae.
- His sons were Iasius.
- and Pierus.[citation needed] He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis".
- Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus.
- Eleuther, one of the twenty sons of Lycaon. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia.
- Eleuther, one of the Curetes, was said to have been the eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in Crete.
Given name
[edit]It is also used as a first name in modern Greek (alternatively transliterated as Eleftherios, in the short form Lefteris):
- Eleftherios Eleftheriou (born 1974), Cypriot football midfielder
- Eleftherios Foulidis (born 1948), Greek iconographer, born in Drepano, Kozani
- Eleftherios Mertakas (born 1985), Cypriot football midfielder
- Eleftherios Papasymeon, Greek athlete who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens
- Eleftherios Poupakis (born 1946), retired Greek footballer
- Eleftherios Sakellariou (born 1987), Greek footballer
- Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), Greek revolutionary, statesman and charismatic leader in the early 20th century
- Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, (fl. 2019 -), Greek member of the European Parliament
- Lefteris Pantazis (born 1955), Greek singer
- Lefteris Papadopoulos (born 1935), Greek lyricist and journalist
- Lefteris Papadimitriou, Greek composer and performer
See also
[edit]- Agios Eleftherios (disambiguation), may refer to two villages and one church
- Soter
- Eleuterio
- Eleutherius (disambiguation)
- Savior (disambiguation)
- Slobodan