Adephagia

Adephagia ( ancient Greek Ἀδηφαγία ) is in Greek mythology the personification of ample satiety.

It is a hypostasis of the goddess Demeter who had a temple in Sicily next to the temple of Demeter Sito .

literature

• Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher: Adephagia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1.1, Leipzig 1886, column 67 ( digitized version ).
• Konrad Wernicke : Adephagia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 357.

proof

1. ^ Polemon in Athenaios 10, 416b.
2. ↑ Claudius Aelianus varia historia 1, 27.