Acratopotes Explained

In Greek mythology, Acratopotes (Ancient Greek: Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ἀκρατοπότης), the drinker of unmixed (as in not diluted with water) 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.

References

• Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
• Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

Notes and 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 (geographer)|Pausanias]