Hera Alexandros

Alexandros (Gr. polytonic|Ἀλέξανδρος), the "defender of men", was an epithet of the Greek goddess Hera, under which she was worshiped at Sicyon.cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Alexander | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 110 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0119.html ] [cite book | last = Lewis | first = Richard Farnell | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = The Cults of the Greek States | publisher = The Clarendon Press | date = 1896 | location = Oxford | pages = 197 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=LD876SQgGkIC | doi = | id = | isbn = ] A temple had been built there to Hera Alexandros by Adrastus after his flight from Argos. [Scholiast, "ad Pind. Nem." ix. 30] [Pseudo-Apollodorus, iii. 12. § 5]

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