Hesychia (mythology)
Hesychia ( ancient Greek Ἡσυχία ) is the personification of calm in Greek mythology .
It is a sovereign invention of the poet Pindar that appears in several of his odes. As calm personified, it is characterized as gentle, but then reappears in an unrelenting warlike manner against troublemakers. This can be explained by the fact that the rest aimed at here is always the result of a previous effort ( hardship brings rest , Paian 2,33). As such, however, it is not a mere respite, but rather a tolerance, the opposite of which is chaos. As Dike's daughter , she defends this state of affairs against the riot with relentless harshness.
Under her Roman name Quies and Silentia , she guards the realm of Hypnos together with Aergia and Oblivio . Therefore, it is also described that in front of the grotto a sleepy and sluggish effect is transferred to one.
literature
- Elroy Lorraine Bundy, Hesychia in Pindar , Diss.phil. Berkeley: University of California, 1954
- Michael Theunissen , Pindar. Menschenlos and Wende der Zeit , Munich, 2000, pp. 74–78
- Heinrich Wilhelm Stoll : Hesychia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 1,2, Leipzig 1890, column 2653 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Hesychia in the Theoi Project (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Pindar , Pythian Odes .
- ↑ Statius , Thebais 10.90ff.