Pleistoros, War-God of the Apsinthians

Thracian · deity · Classical Thrace; attested c. 479 BCE (aftermath of the Persian Wars), per Herodotus · deity

Thracian war-god of the Apsinthian tribe receiving captive sacrifice. Native theonym transmitted only in Greek (Πλείστωρος). Classified 'deity'. Almost nothing else survives; the war-god reading is inference from the sacrifice of a war-captive.

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