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[German version] Goddess who was worshipped in a grove between the estuary of the Liris and Minturnae (modern Minturno), probably as early as the beginning of the 7th cent. BC. A temple which was still frequented in the late Republican period can be dated to the late 6th cent. According to Plutarch (Marius 39), once something had been carried into the temple it was not allowed to remove it. Archaeological findings - anatomical votive offerings ( Consecratio) and representations of babies ( Kourotr…

[German version] [1] Son of Amphictyon (Μᾶλος; Mâlos). Son of Amphictyon, eponym of the Malieis and of their city Malieus (Androtion in Steph. Byz. s.v. Μαλιεύς; Malieús). In the poems of Isyllus of Epidaurus (CollAlex 132-135 = [1. 380-383 no. 40]) M. is an Epidaurian king who introduces the cult of Apollo Maleatas. Therefore, M. is probably an Epidaurian etymology to explain the name Maleatas. In Isyllus, M. - through the mediation of Zeus - marries the Muse Erato and becomes the father of Cleophema, hence the grandfather of Aegle [5] and the great-grandfather of Asclepius. von Stuckrad,…

[German version] A divinity mentioned by Varro, Antiquitates Rerum Divinarum fr. 149 Cardauns (in Aug. Civ. 6,9), probably taken from the Indigitamenta of the pontifices ( Pontifex ), classified there as a ‘goddess of marriage’. She was invoked to keep a wife with her husband. M. is not attested elsewhere, but according to [1] should be linked to the Etruscan god Mantus, with a suffixation characteristic of Etruscan. Etruscan; Sondergötter von Stuckrad, Kocku (Erfurt) Bibliography 1 Radke, 198.

[German version] I. Systematics The term hemerology denotes the cultural practice of connecting the success or failure of actions with favourable or unfavourable days defined by the calendar (= cal.). The assumption that days are fixed not only quantitatively but also qualitatively was common to all ancient cultures and led to its own genre, the  hemerologion. The concept of hemerology meanwhile goes beyond this genre and must be seen in connection with  calendar,  divination and  astrology. Further…

[German version] (Μελίαι, Μελιάδες; Melíai, Meliádes). Tree, esp. ash nymphs, related to the dryads and hamadryads [1; 2]. According to Hes. Theog. 176-187, they arose, like the Erinyes and Titans, from drops of blood from the castration of Uranus, which fell to Earth ( Gaia) and fertilized her. Hes. Op. 145 confines the descent of humans from tree divinities to the third age of iron ( Ages). Some of these nymphs are linked in local legend with heroes: (1) a Theban nymph, daughter of Oceanus, mother …