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Amphidamas
(250 words)
(Ἀμφιδάμας;
Amphidámas). [German version] [1] Hero from Tegea in Arcadia Hero from Tegea in Arcadia, son of Aleus, brother of Lycurgus son of Cepheus and Auge (Paus. 8,4,8), one of the Argonauts (Apoll. Rhod. 1…
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Ianus
(1,407 words)
The Roman god of passage in a topographical, temporal and figurative sense. His name is derived from
ianua (‘passage, gate’) and is connected with Ianiculum. The name refers to the god as well as to the cultically relevant gates connected to him. Iconographical representations begin in the Republican period, depicting I. usually with two faces, occasionally with four (
bifrons, quadrifrons). [German version] A. Cult centres His cult is almost exclusively public and political, only two private dedications to him are extant. Two old altars of I. in Rome are attested in the literature: one of them on the Ianiculum, the location of his royal palace (Varro in Aug. Civ. 7,4; Ov. Fast. 1,245f.), a second one on Mons Oppius at the so-called Tigillum Sororium, a wooden beam spanning the road commemorating the myth of the Horatii and Curiatii ( Horatius), together with an alta…
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Cinyras
(327 words)
[German version] (Κινύρας,
Kinýras). Mythic founder of the temple of Aphrodite of Paphus, and progen…
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Apollonian/Dionysian
(816 words)
[English version] The polarity between Apollo and Dionysus and the phenomena linked with these gods was introduced into modern aesthetic discussion by Friederich Nietzsche. Nietzsche understood the ‘duplicity of Apollo and Dionysus’ as a fundamental opposition of Greek aesthetics :
An ihre (sc. der Griechen) beiden Kunstgottheiten, Apollo und Dionysus, knüpft sich unsere Erkenntnis, daß in der griech. Welt ein ungeheurer Gegensatz, nach Ursprung und Zielen, zw. der Kunst des Bildners, der apollinischen, und der unbildlichen Kunst der Musik, als der des Dionysus, besteht (‘it i…
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Achates
(297 words)
[German version] [1] Precious stone According to Theophr. De lapidibus 31 [1.68], a precious stone (
gemma) named after the river of the same name in Sicily (today's Carabi or Canitello), and which, along with 11 others, adorned the official escutcheon of the High Priest Aaron (Ex 39,10-13) [2.204 f.]. According to Plin. HN 37,5, King Pyrrhus of Epirus owned a specimen whose naturally occurring streaks (
maculae) depicted Apollo and the nine Muses. According to Plin. HN 37,139-142, the achates and its many variants, whilst having decreased in value owing to ma…
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Carmanor
(169 words)
(Καρμάνωρ;
Karmánōr). [German version] [1] Cretan seer A Cretan seer and priest of purification, as such closely connected with Apollo, the god of ritual purification, and with Delphi, his centre of cult worship. He purifies Apollo and Artemis after the killing of the snake Python (in Tarrha, Phaestus or Dion on Crete, Paus. 2,30,3; Euseb. Praep. evang. 5,31); in his house Apollo loves the nymph Acacallis who becomes mother of the founding heroes of the Cretan city Elyrus (on the myth of abandonment …
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Aeantis
(190 words)
[German version] [1] 9th of the 10 Attic phylae (Αἰαντίς;
Aiantís). The 9th of the 10 Attic phylae, dating from the phyle reforms of Cleisthenes (Hdt. 5,66). Named after the hero Ajax [1], son of Telamon, king of Salamis. In the 4th cent. BC it included four
paralia demes as well as one
asty- and one
mesogeia deme ( Phalerum and Aphidna), which, on account of their size, each represented one
trittýs. In 307/6 BC, the A. gave none of its demes to the new Macedonian phyles, but later gave one each to the Ptolemais, Attalis and Hadrianis. In …
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Aphidas
(148 words)
(Ἀφείδας;
Apheídas). Suggestive heroic name, ‘not miserly’. [German version] [1] Figure of the Odyssee Son of Polypemon from Alybas, as whose son Eperitus Odysseus passes himself off (Hom. Od. 24,304). Graf, Fritz (Columbus, OH) [German version] [2] King of Athens King of Athens, son of Oxyntes; his illegitimate brother kills him (Demon FGrH 327 F 1; Nikolaus FGrH 90 F 48). He is progenitor of the noble family of the Aphidantidae […
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Myth
(8,403 words)
I. Theory of myth [German version] A. Definition Despite many attempts, it has proven impossible to arrive at a definition of myth (Gr. μῦθος/
mýthos; Lat.
mythos) that would satisfy all disciplines. The most satisfactory one refers to G.S. Kirk and W. Burkert who described myth as a ‘traditional narrative of collective significance’ [1; 2]. Still, this definition fails to fully represent the function of myth in the time after Classical Antiquity, when we find myths in entertaining narratives such as Ovidius's ‘Metamorphoses or Nonnus's
Dionysiaká. The term ‘traditional’ implies…
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Aeternitas
(246 words)
[German version] ‘Eternity’, personification of duration of political rule. In the imperial period one can swear by the ‘eternal duration’ of the rule of an emperor, likewise invoke his fame or his well-being (Plin. Ep. 10,41,1; 83). The cult of Aeternitas probably begins in the early imperial period in Spain: coins (for instance from Tarraco and Emerita) under Augustus and Tiberius depict a temple with the legend,
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Fonteius
(1,213 words)
Name of a Roman Plebeian family from Tusculum (who, as mint masters, liked to place on their coins the Dioscuri, who were particularly revered there, RRC 290, 307, cf. 353), whose members often held the office of praetor; the family did not attain the consulate until the early Imperial period.…
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Androclus
(128 words)
[German version] (Ἄνδροκλος;
Ándroklos). Son of king Codrus of Athens. According to Pherecydes (FGrH 3 F 155), the leader of the procession of colonists going from there to Ionia; however, according to Hellanicus (FGrH 4 F 125), Neleus, son of Codrus, already has this role. A. expels Leleges and Lydians and founds Ephesus; the royal lineage in Ephesus may have been called ‘the Androclids’. A. is said to have fought against the Samians and …
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Anticlus
(63 words)
[German version] (Ἄντικλος;
Ántiklos). One of the Greeks in the wooden horse. He wanted to answer Helena, when, near the horse standing on the hill fortress, she was imitating the voices of Greek women. However, Odysseus closed his mouth until Athena had led Helena away (Hom. Od. 4,271-89; Q. Smyrn. 12,317; Apollod. ep. 5,19; Ov. Ib. 567).…
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Religion, History of
(9,620 words)
Graf, Fritz (Columbus, OH) [German version] A. Terminology (CT) Neither Greek nor Latin had a word that precisely corresponds to the modern term 'religion' in its academic sense, whether to designate a specific cultural subsystem ('the religion of the Aztecs') or to refer to the anthropological constant of religion. This modern concept was a result of the Enlightenment and ethnological discoveries, and dates only to the Early Modern era. Ancient concepts focused on individual areas: the Greek
thrēskeía, 'worship', and the Greek
eusébeia refer only to ritual in the collective…
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Amyris
(53 words)
[German version] (Ἄμυρις;
Ámyris). From Siris, called ‘the Wise’, father of Damasus, one of the suitors of Agariste, the mother of Cleisthenes (Hdt. 6,127). The epithet associates him with the general sphere of the pre-philosophical, archaic Tales of Sages [1]. Graf, Fritz (Columb…
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Amythaon
(109 words)
[German version] (Ἀμυθάων;
Amytháōn). Son of Cretheus and Tyro in Iolcus, brother of Phereus and Aeson, half brother of Neleus and Pelias, the sons of Poseidon (Hom. Od. 11,235-259; Hes. fr. 38). He settles in Pylos, which Neleus founded, and here he fathers his sons Melampus and Bias (Diod. Sic. 4,…
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