Eleutherios

Eleutherios or Lefteris (Ελευθέριος, "the liberator") is an epithet and formal attribution in the Greek pantheon, including:


 * Dionysus
 * Eros
 * Zeus

From Eleuther, son of Apollo and Aethusa.


 * 1) He is renowned for having an excellent singing voice, which earned him a victory at the Pythian games,
 * 2) and for having been the first to erect a statue of Dionysus.
 * 3) as well as for having given his name to Eleutherae.
 * 4) His sons were Iasius.
 * 5) and Pierus. He also had several daughters, who spoke impiously of the image of Dionysus wearing a black aegis, and were driven mad by the god; as a remedy, Eleuther, in accordance with an oracle, established a cult of "Dionysus of the Black Aegis".
 * 6) Eleuther, a variant of the name Eleutherios, early Greek god who was the son of Zeus and probably an alternate name of Dionysus.
 * 7) Eleuther, one of the twenty sons of Lycaon. He and his brother Lebadus were the only not guilty of the abomination prepared for Zeus, and fled to Boeotia.
 * 8) Eleuther, one of the Curetes, was said to have been the eponym of the towns Eleutherae and Eleuthernae in Crete.

Given name
It is also used as a first name in modern Greek (alternatively transliterated as Eleftherios, in the short form Lefteris):


 * Eleftherios Eleftheriou (born 1974), Cypriot football midfielder
 * Eleftherios Foulidis (born 1948), Greek iconographer, born in Drepano, Kozani
 * Eleftherios Mertakas (born 1985), Cypriot football midfielder
 * Eleftherios Papasymeon, Greek athlete who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens
 * Eleftherios Poupakis (born 1946), retired Greek footballer
 * Eleftherios Sakellariou (born 1987), Greek footballer
 * Eleftherios Venizelos (1864–1936), Greek revolutionary, statesman and charismatic leader in the early 20th century
 * Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, (fl. 2019 -), Greek member of the European Parliament
 * Lefteris Pantazis (born 1955), Greek singer
 * Lefteris Papadopoulos (born 1935), Greek lyricist and journalist
 * Lefteris Papadimitriou, Greek composer and performer