Enyo
Enyo ( ancient Greek Ἐνυώ ) is the goddess of bloody hand-to-hand combat in Greek mythology . She is the female counterpart of Enyalios , of whose name hers is a shortened form. In Roman mythology , she was identified with the goddess of war Bellona . Strabo equates the deity Ma, worshiped in Komana Pontika , with Enyo.
In Homer's Iliad she appears together with Athena and Ares , with whom she encourages the Trojans to fight. Her distinguishing mark is the daimon of close combat Kydoimos , which she wields like a weapon.
At Quintus of Smyrna she is the daughter of Zeus and Hera . She appears as the mother, daughter or wet nurse of Ares and as the sister of war. In poetry, like that of Ares, her name is also used as a synonym for war. With Eustathios she is the mother of Enyalios. Together with Deimos and Phobos , she mingles with the fighting, covered in sweat and blood, and enjoys the blood-soaked earth of the battlefield.
In Ares temple in Athens there was to Pausanias a painting of Enyo. In Aeschylus it appears next to Enyalios, Ares and Athena Areia in the ephebic oath.
literature
- Ruth Michael Gais: Enyo 1 . In: Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volume III, Zurich / Munich 1986, pp. 747-748.
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll: Enyo 1 . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,1, Leipzig 1886, column 1251 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Enyo in the Theoi Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Strabo 12, 2, 3.
- ↑ Homer : Iliad 5 : 333.
- ↑ a b Homer: Iliad 5, 592.
- ↑ Scholion for Iliad 5, 593.
- ^ Quintus of Smyrna 8:424.
- ↑ Scholion for Iliad 5, 333.
- ↑ Cornutus : De natura deorum 21.
- ^ Quintus of Smyrna 8:425.
- ↑ Eustathios of Thessalonike : Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 140.
- ↑ Quintus of Smyrna 5:29; 8, 286.
- ↑ a b Flavius Philostratos : Imagines 2, 29.
- ^ Pausanias 1: 8, 4.
- ↑ Aeschylus : Seven against Thebes 45.