Ancient Samothrace

statue from Samothrace, Greece in the Louvre, Paris, France

Greek grammarian and scholar (c.220–c.143 BC)

thumb|right|Agamemnon, [[Talthybius and Epeius, relief from Samothrace, ca. 560 BC, Louvre]] In Greek mythology, the Cabeiri or Cabiri (), also transliterated Kabeiri or Kabiri, were a group of enigmatic chthonic deities. They were worshipped in a mystery cult closely associated with that of Hephaestus, centered in the north Aegean Islands of Lemnos and possibly Samothrace—at the Samothrace temple complex—and at Thebes. In their distant origins the Cabeiri and the Samothracian gods may include pre-Greek elements, or other non-Greek elements, such as Thracian, Tyrrhenian, Pelasgian, Phrygian or

ancient sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace, Greece

museum in Greece

ancient Greek city on the Aegean