The corpus record

ἡρῷον

eroon · τό

shrine of a hero

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Where it lives

Ars Poetica 1 · 0.99/10k
Histories 3 · 0.16/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k
Republic 1 · 0.11/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ἡρῷον · hērōion — LSJ

1 shrine of a hero

(sc. ἱερόν or ἕδος) shrine of a hero, Hdt. 5.47, 67, Th. 2.17, etc.; θἠρῷον, i.e. τὸ ἡρῷον, Ar. V. 819.

2 tomb

tomb, IG 12(7).478 (Amorgos), IGRom. 4.799 (Apamea, iii A.D.), etc.:—in form ἡρώειον, CIG 4418 (Cilicia), etc.

3 hexameter

(sc. μέτρον) hexameter, Plu. Num. 4, etc.

4 festival of a hero

ἡρῷα (sc. ἱερά), τά, festival of a hero, δειπνεῖν Id. Praec. 2.811d, cf. IG 2(2).974.

In the wild

ἡρῴῳ · hērōiōi Aristotle, Ars Poetica 24
ἡρῷον · hērōion Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 9.3 (DIORISIS sentence 7823)
ἡρώιον · hērōion Herodotus, Histories 5.47.2 (DIORISIS sentence 5659)
ἡρώιον · hērōion Herodotus, Histories 5.67.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5788)
ἡρωίου · hērōiou Herodotus, Histories 6.69.3 (DIORISIS sentence 6576)
ἡρῷόν · hērōion Plato, Republic 3.400 (DIORISIS sentence 1766)

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