Euphrosyne (mythology)

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Euphrosyne ( Greek Εὐφροσύνη EUPHROSYNE , German , cheerfulness' ) is the first in Hesiod occupied name one of the three Graces (Roman: Graces), ie goddesses of grace in Greek mythology (instead Euphrosynes is Aristophanes According to a grace called Peitho or Suad (el ) called a). She embodies happiness and joy .

Euphrosyne is, like her sisters Thalia (also Thaleia , "Festfreude") and Aglaia ("the shiny one"), daughter of the Eurynomials and Zeus . In another version handed down by Hyginus Mythographus , Euphrosyne appears as a daughter of the goddess of the night, Nyx , and of Erebos .

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe named an elegy “Euphrosyne” written on the occasion of the untimely death of the actress Christiane Becker-Neumann (created 1797/98).

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  1. Hesiod : Theogony 909; Pindar : Olympia 14, 14; Library of Apollodorus 1, 13; Pausanias 9, 35, 5; among others
  2. ^ Hyginus : Fabulae praef .; by Cicero ( De natura deorum 3, 44) it is called Gratia .