Enyo

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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.

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  1. Strabo 12, 2, 3.
  2. Homer : Iliad 5 : 333.
  3. a b Homer: Iliad 5, 592.
  4. Scholion for Iliad 5, 593.
  5. ^ Quintus of Smyrna 8:424.
  6. Scholion for Iliad 5, 333.
  7. Cornutus : De natura deorum 21.
  8. ^ Quintus of Smyrna 8:425.
  9. Eustathios of Thessalonike : Commentarii ad Homeri Iliadem 140.
  10. Quintus of Smyrna 5:29; 8, 286.
  11. a b Flavius ​​Philostratos : Imagines 2, 29.
  12. ^ Pausanias 1: 8, 4.
  13. Aeschylus : Seven against Thebes 45.