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The Homarium, Homagyrium or Amarion (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάριον) was the common sanctuary of the Achaean League, built c. 371 BC at Aegium. It was so named as it was dedicated to Zeus Amarios (Ancient Greek: Ἀμάριος) or Homarios (Ὁμάριος) or Homagyrios (Ὁμαγύριος) (Latinized as Homarius and Homagyrius, the exact meaning of the epithets is uncertain, but probably "god of the assembly, he who unites"),[1] and was used, according to Polybius, for meetings and debates on Achaean lines.[2] Strabo describes it as a grove, near a temple of Demeter Panachaia.
Again, according to Polybius [5:93] resolutions to internal Achaean disputes during the Social War were recorded on a stele erected near the altar of Hestia or Vesta.
Pausanias described the Homarium at Aegium in the 2nd century:
He also mention the priesthood and organisation of the temple:
The Acahean colonies in Italy, Sybaris, Caulon and Kroton similarly established a Homarium as a common forum.[5]
Pope, in his 1715 Essay introducing his translation of Homer's Iliad, refers a temple erected to Homer as "the true Homærium", and comments on dispute over its locality. By 1872 this was described as a back-formation.
Nineteen states of the Achaean League minted triobols (or hemidrachms), small silver coins worth three obols, carrying a bust of Zeus Amarios on the obverse.[6] Later bronze coins were minted by the members of the league, also bearing the image of Zeus Amarios, holding a miniature Nike, presenting him a wreath. The later bronze mintage is remarkable for the number of towns and villages that produced coins, some forty five, and the number of die used, estimated at 1600.[6]
The Achaean oath was taken upon the trinity of Hamarium Zeus, Hamarium Athena and Aphrodite.
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