Erykine

Location of the two temples of Venus Erycina in Rome

Erykine ( Greek  Ἐρυκίνη ) is an epithet of Aphrodite , in its Latin form Erucina of Venus .

The nickname comes from Mount Eryx in Sicily , today's Erice , where it had its main temple. According to Diodorus , the temple was built by their son Eryx and his father Butes , at Virgil it was built by Aeneas . After Pausanias , Eryx's daughter Psophis built another temple in Arcadia .

Their cult also penetrated Rome , where the Venus Erycina is known in 217 BC. A magnificent temple on the Capitol and in 181 BC. Chr. Consecrated a second in front of the Porta Collina on the Quirinal .

literature

• Annette Hupfloher: Aphrodite Erykine in Arkadien , in: Tanja Scheer (ed.): Temple prostitution in antiquity. Facts and fictions . Berlin 2009. pp. 328–343.

Web links

• Nicknames of Aphrodite in the Theoi Project (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gerhard Radke: Notes on the cultic measures in Rome during the Second Punic War . (WJ Vol. 6) Berlin 1980, pp. 105-121.
2. ↑ Diodorus 4, 83.
3. ↑ Virgil : Aeneid 5, 760.
4. ^ Pausanias 8:24 , 3.
5. ↑ Livy 22: 9 f .; 11, 34.
6. ^ Ovid : Fasti 4, 871.