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Evanemus

Εὐάνεμος

(Εὐάνεμος), the giver of favourable wind, was a surname of Zeus, under which the god had a sanctuary at Sparta. (Paus. 3.13.5; comp. Theocrit. 28.5.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.