Euphrosyne (mythology)
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).
literature
- Jakob Escher-Bürkli : Art. Euphrosyne 1). In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume VI, 1, Stuttgart 1907, Col. 1225.