Eleos
Eleos ( Greek Ἔλεος ) is the personification of compassion in Greek mythology , and Misericordia corresponds to him in Roman mythology .
He had an altar in the Agora of Athens , where refugees sought refuge. The altar may be identical to the twelve gods altar . The better-known of these refugees include Adrastus and the Heraclids , to whom the founding of the altar was occasionally attributed.
According to Pausanias, it was the only place of worship of the deity, but a right-angled altar was found in the temple of Asclepius in Epidaurus , which is also assigned to Eleos in inscriptions. According to Diodorus , the Athenian altar was not the only Eleos altar, but the first.
literature
- August Schultz : Eleos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1240 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Waser : Eleos. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume V, 2, Stuttgart 1905, Col. 2320 f.
Web links
- Eleos in the Greek Myth Index (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Timocles , fragment 31.
- ↑ a b Pausanias 1, 17, 1.
- ↑ Libraries of Apollodorus 3, 7, 1.
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 2, 8, 1.
- ↑ Lucian of Samosata Timon 42.
- ↑ Flavius Philostratos epistulae 34, 247.
- ↑ Publius Papinius Statius Thebais 12, 497.
- ↑ Diodorus 13:22 .