Acratopotes

In Greek mythology, Acratopotes (Greek: Ἀκρατοπότης), the drinker of unmixed wine, was a hero worshiped in Munychia in Attica.^[1] According to Pausanias, who calls him simply Acratus, he was one of the divine companions of Dionysus,^[2] who was worshiped at Attica.^[3] Pausanias saw his image at Athens in the house of Polytion, where it was fixed in the wall.^[4]

See also

• list of Greek mythological figures

References

1. Polemo, ap. Athen. ii. p. 39
2. Similar in name to Dionysus Acratophorus, the "unmixed wine" epithet by which Dionysus was worshiped in Phigaleia in Arcadia.
3. Pausanias, i. 2. § 4
4. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Acratopotes", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1, Boston, MA, p. 14

Sources

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "^{article name needed}". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.