Methapus
Μέθαπος
(Μέθαπος), an Athenian who is said to have introduced at Thebes the worship of the Cabeiri. He was much skilled in all kinds of mysteries and orgies, and made several alterations in the mysteries at Andania. (Paus. 4.1.5; Welcker, Die Aeschyl. Tril. p. 270.)
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.