Alexanor

:"For the butterfly species with this name, see Papilio alexanor."Alexanor (Greek Polytonic|Ἀλεξάνωρ) was a son of Machaon, and grandson of the Greek god Asclepius, who built to his grandfather a temple on the summit of Titane in the territory of Sicyon.cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Alexanor | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 128 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=143] Around it there were dwellings for the use of those who came to solicit the aid of the god. [cite book | last = Leake | first = William Martin | authorlink = William Martin Leake | coauthors = | title = Travels in the Morea | publisher = J. Murray | date = 1830 | location = | pages = 377 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=kdQ7AAAAMAAJ | doi = | id = | isbn = ] Alexanor himself too was worshiped there, and sacrifices were offered to him, but only after sunset. [Pausanias, "Description of Greece" ii. 23. ~ 4, 11. ~ 6, &c.]

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