Also at the site is the so-called heroon of Aeneas.

These monuments have the same functions with heroon.

A heroon is found south of the acropolis.

The cult typically centred around the heroon in which the hero's bones were usually believed to be contained.

This area has been associated with the propitiation of Iphigenia, perhaps in the form of a heroon.

According to Pausanias, a heroon was dedicated to him for worship by hereditarily assigned priests.

Sometimes called 'the heroon, this long narrow building (150 feet by 30 feet) contained two burial shafts.

He mentions a heroon to Draco, a companion of Odysseus, stood there.

He had a heroon in Sparta.

There was at Sparta a heroon of Aegeus.

He was killed, together with his father and brothers, by Heracles, and had a heroon at Sparta.

When he awakes, the shepherd constructs a heroon to the gnat in the grove and the poet has a flower-catalogue.

There was a heroon of her in Messenia with a statue of gold and Parian marble.

The temple of Garaguso, Heroon is of note, revealing a strong Greek presence in the area.

An inscription records the site of the heroon of Semachos, which lay along the pathway that led to Laurion.

Another well-preserved and well-known heroon is the Library of Celsus in Ephesus, Turkey.

In Pergamon the Heroon of Diodoros Pasparos was remodelled after the earthquake.

A heroon from the Roman period and a Byzantine church from the 5th or 6th century AD were built on the acropolis.

Archaeological study has shown that the first warrior burials in the area of the later heroon of Eretria took place around 710-705 BC.

Some of the remains found there are the walls, the Hadrian's triumphal arch, the cisterns, the theater, the gymnasium, the agora, the odeon and the heroon.

The first hero cult of a philosopher we know of was Parmenides' dedication of a heroon to his teacher Ameinias in Elea.

A well-preserved Roman heroon from the Augustan period is situated in the ancient city of Sagalassos in what is now Turkey.

Inside the museum there are four tombs and one small temple, the heroon built as the temple for the great tomb of Philip II of Macedon.

The last stoichedon text dates from the 3rd century CE and is the geneaological inscription from the Heroon of Oenoanda in Lycia.

Similarly, Herodotus records in his Histories that the Spartans raided the heroon of the city of Tegea, stealing the bones of Orestes.