Anaideia

Anaideia ( ancient Greek Ἀναίδεια ) is the personification of shamelessness in Greek mythology .

A cult in Athens is already mentioned in Xenophon , who lets Socrates compare the Athenians with the Spartans in the symposium . In contrast to the Athenians, who worship Anadeia, the Spartans worship Aidos , the personified modesty. Theophrastus mentions an altar of Anaideia next to an altar of Hybris in Athens, in later interpretations the altars are traced back to the priest and philosopher Epimenides . Cicero explains that Epimenides had a temple built for her and hubris after Cylon was stoned to death at the altar of Athena , which has gone down in Athenian historiography as the "Cylon sacrilege". It is believed that the altars were the two rough stones on the Areopagus , on which, according to Pausanias, the accused and the plaintiff had to stand at a tribunal.

literature

• Adolf Schirmer : Anaideia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 330 ( digitized version ).
• Konrad Wernicke : Anaideia . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 2, Stuttgart 1894, Col. 2029.

Web links

• Anaideia in the Theoi Project (English)

Remarks

1. ↑ Xenophon, Symposium 8, 35.
2. ↑ Theophrastus in Zenobios 4, 36.
3. ↑ Clemens of Alexandria , Protrepticus ad Graecos 2, 26; Istros in Suda sv θεός .
4. ^ Cicero, De legibus 2, 28.
5. ^ Pausanias 1:28 , 5.