Dia (mythology)
Dia ( ancient Greek Δῖα, Δία Día ) is a female equivalent of Zeus in the Mycenaean religion . It is attested in the spelling Diwija on Linear B tablets that were found in Pylos and Knossos . In after Mycenaean times it is ritually connected to Hera and Hebe . According to Strabo , Hebe , the goddess of youth and wife of Heracles , was worshiped under the name Dia in Sikyon and Phleius .
Furthermore, in Greek mythology , Dia is the wife of Ixion . Their origin is unclear. She is considered the daughter of Eioneus or Deioneus or Hesioneus . Ixion had promised his father-in-law rich bridal gifts, but when he asked for them, Ixion threw him into a pit filled with glowing coals. Dia is the mother of Peirithoos , whose father is Ixion or - according to the majority of the sources - Zeus himself.
After all, a slide from Apollon is said to be the mother of the arcader Dryops ; Lykaon is named as the father of this slide .
Among the Romans, Dea Dia is the name of an otherwise unknown female deity. The sacrifice made by the Arval Brothers in May was for her. It is unclear whether the slide attested to in an inscription from Amiternum is about this deity.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strabon Geographika 8.6.24
- ↑ Pherecytes of Athens in Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 3.62
- ↑ Diodorus 4, 69, 3.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 1, 68.
- ↑ Homer Iliad 2, 741; 14, 317f.
- ↑ Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae 155, 4.
- ↑ Scholion to Lycophron from Chalkis 480; Scholion to Apollonios of Rhodes 1.1213
- ↑ CIL I² 2, 1546