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Amphipyros

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Amphipyros is a rare epithet of Artemis as bearing a torch in either hand, with fire at each end. Sophocles calls her, "Elaphebolos, (deer slayer) Amphipyros", reminding the annual fire of the festival Laphria. The adjective refers also to the twin fires of the two peaks of the Mount Parnassus above Delphi (Phaedriades).

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aspect of
Artemis (Diana)
co occurs with
Apanchomene, Helene, Dentritis, Kondyleatis, Aricina, Ariadne, Britomartis, Alpheus, Virbius, Anaïtis, Angelos, Aphaea, Aeginaea, Aetole, Agoraea, Despoinai, Agrotera, Alphaea, Amarynthia

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  1. Epithets of Artemis

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“Amphipyros, with fire at each end, a rare epithet of Artemis as bearing a torch in either hand. Sophocles calls her, "Elaphebolos, (deer slayer) Amphipyros", reminding the annual fire of the festival Laphria The adjective refers also to the twin fires of the two peaks of the Mount Parnassus above Delphi (Phaedriades).”

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