Idalia
Idalia is an epithet of Aphrodite that was only used in Roman literature .
The nickname comes from the city of Idalion on Cyprus , which owned a sanctuary of the goddess and was mainly known for this sanctuary in ancient times. Theokritus calls Aphrodite in the 3rd century BC. BC Mistress who love Idalion. Idalion as a place name associated with Aphrodite - or its Roman equivalent Venus - is also found in the Aeneid of Virgil , who is the only one to also name it Venus Idalia . She meets Ovid as dea Idalia . The toponym sanctified to her to identify the goddess is also used by Catullus .
The sanctuary of the goddess was on the Acropolis of Idalion, its excavation yielded numerous statuettes made of stone and terracotta of the Archaic , Classical and Hellenistic periods . The city's coins bore the image of Aphrodite.
literature
- Otto Höfer : Idalia . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 2.1, Leipzig 1894, column 95 ( digitized version ).
- Paul Friedländer : Idalia. In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume IX, 1, Stuttgart 1914, column 867 ( digitized version ).
Remarks
- ↑ Theokritos, Idylls 15,100 : Δέσποιν ', ἃ Γολγώς τε καὶ Ἰδάλιον ἐφίλησας .
- ↑ Virgil, Aeneid 1,681,693.
- ↑ Virgil, Aeneid 5,760.
- ↑ Ovid, ars amatoria 3,106 ; see. also Ovid, Metamorphoses 14,694 .
- ↑ Catullus 36:12 ; 61.17 ; 64.96 .
- ↑ For the finds see Max Ohnefalsch-Richter : Kypros, Die Bibel und Homer. Panel. Berlin, 1893, plate 7 (sanctuary); Plate 13 (finds); Plates 52-59 (finds); John Myres, Max Ohnefalsch-Richter: A Catalog of the Cyprus Museum. Oxford 1899, p. 3 f. 157-160 .