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heroon Gr. Antiq.|hɪˈrəʊɒn|
Pl. -a. Also heröon, heroum.
[L. heroum, a. Gr. ἡρῷον, f. ἡρώιος of a hero, f. ἥρως hero.]
A sepulchral monument in the form of a small temple; orig. a temple or sanctuary dedicated to a hero, often over his supposed tomb.
1775R. Chandler Trav. Asia Minor 111 Searching about, we found..an inscription, which has belonged to an heroum or sepulchre. 1820T. S. Hughes Trav. Sicily I. 298 The Heroa of Theseus and Pirithous. 1883A. S. Murray Hist. Greek Sculpture II. 289 The heröon at Gjölbaschi in Lycia. 1904T. R. Glover Stud. Virgil iv. 89 A hêrôon of Aeneas in Ambracia. 1950Antiquity XXIV. 131 Dyggve himself has excavated such a Heroon at Kalydon. |