Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity.... ) was a cultic epithet of the Greek god
Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the Ancient Greece concerning their List of Greek mythological figures#Immortals and Greek hero cult, Cosmology#Metaphysical cosmology, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.... Zeus
Zeus
Zeus in Greek mythology is the king of the gods, the ruler of Mount Olympus and the god of the sky father and List of thunder gods. His symbols are the thunderbolt, eagle, bull , and oak.... , under which he was worshiped at Sparta
Sparta
Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the Eurotas River in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From circa 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars.... . Some writers, such as Eustathius
Eustathius of Thessalonica
Eustathius of Thessalonica was a native of Constantinople who became archbishop of Thessalonica. After being a monk in the monastery of St. Florus, he was appointed to the offices of superintendent of peti?tions , professor of rhetoric , and deacon of the church of Constantinople.... , thought that the god derived this name from the resemblance between him and the Greek hero Agamemnon
Agamemnon
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon / is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of Mycenae or of Argos.... ; others that Zeus Agamemnon was merely a synecdoche
Synecdoche
Synecdoche is a figure of speech in which:* a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to the whole thing , or* a term denoting a thing is used to refer to part of it , or... glorifying the hero, not the god. Still others believed it to be a mere epithet signifying the eternal, from agan and menon .
