Fames

Fames ( Latin : "hunger") was the personification of hunger by ancient Roman poets (corresponding to the Greek Limos by Hesiod ). Virgil calls him male suada (“tempting to evil”) and moves him to the entrance to the Orcus . For Ovid , Fames is a hollow-looking, emaciated woman with shaggy hair and a pale countenance who lives in the ice fields of Scythia on the Caucasus . By order of the goddess of agriculture, Ceres , Fames punishes the Erysichthon .

Virgil also has the phrase auri sacra fames, "cursed hunger for gold". She is also quoted in the Asterix volume dispute over Asterix by the educated pirate .

literature

Brigitte Schaffner: Fames. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 .

Remarks

^ Hesiod, Theogony 227.
^ Virgil, Aeneid 6, 276.
^ Ovid, Metamorphosen 8, 788 ff.
↑ Virgil, Aeneis 3, 56f: quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames "Why don't you drive people's hearts, accursed hunger for gold!"

[1] Hesiod, Theogony 227.

[2] Virgil, Aeneid 6, 276.

[3] Ovid, Metamorphosen 8, 788 ff.

[4] Virgil, Aeneis 3, 56f: quid non mortalia pectora cogis, auri sacra fames "Why don't you drive people's hearts, accursed hunger for gold!"