Exhortation to the Greeks 2.38

And now even the superstitious themselves appear to understand, unwillingly but nonetheless, the error about the gods; for they are not “from an oak of ancient story, nor from a rock,” but “are of the race of men,” and a little later they will be found to be oaks and rocks as well. Staphylus records, for example, that a certain Zeus Agamemnon is honored in Sparta; and Phanocles, in his Loves or Beautiful Boys, says that Agamemnon, the king of the Greeks, founded a temple of Aphrodite Argynnis for Argynnus, his beloved. The Arcadians pray to an Artemis called “the Strangled,” as Callimachus says in the Causes; and at Methymna another Artemis is honored, Condylitis (“of the Knuckle”). There is also in Laconia a temple of yet another Artemis, “Gout,” as Sosibius says. Polemon knows of a statue of “Gaping” Apollo, and another of Apollo “the Glutton,” honored in Elis. There the Eleans sacrifice to Zeus “Averter of Flies”; and the Romans sacrifice to Heracles “Averter of Flies,” and to Fever and to Fear, whom they also enroll among Heracles's companions.