Gynaecothoenas

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Gynaecothoenas, "the god feasted by women", was an epithet of the Ancient Greek god Ares at Tegea.

In a war of the Tegeatans against the Lacedaemonian king Charillus, the women of Tegea made an attack upon the enemy from an ambus­cade. This decided the victory. The women therefore celebrated the victory alone, and ex­cluded the men from the sacrificial feast. This, it is said, gave rise to the surname of Apollo. ^[1]

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• This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1870).