Alexanor

For the butterfly species with this name, see Papilio alexanor.

Alexanor (Ancient Greek: 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.^[1] Around it there were dwellings for the use of those who came to solicit the aid of the god.^[2] Alexanor himself too was worshiped there, and sacrifices were offered to him, but only after sunset.^[3]

References

1. Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Alexanor". In William Smith. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 128.
2. Leake, William Martin (1830). Travels in the Morea. J. Murray. p. 377.
3. Pausanias, Description of Greece ii. 23. ~ 4, 11. ~ 6, &c.

 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.