Lips (mythology)

Lips ( ancient Greek Λίψ , German also Libs , Latin Africus ) was the divine embodiment of the southwest wind in Greek mythology .

The name is - like the Libeccio in Corsica - derived from Libya , which is southwest of Greece; accordingly he is said to have designated the west wind in Egypt . Etymologically, Lips is derived from ancient Greek λείβω , trickling, wetting .

At the Tower of the Winds in Athens Lips is depicted as a boy with a ship's stem, as he is said to have thrown the debris from the defeated Persian ships on the Attic coast after the sea battle of Salamis . According to another interpretation, this symbolizes that it was cheap for the ships entering the port of Piraeus.

literature

Heinrich Wilhelm Schaefer : Africus 2 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume I, 1, Stuttgart 1893, Col. 716 f.
Dr. Vollmer's Dictionary of the Mythology of All Nations , Third Edition, Stuttgart 1874, Reprint Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-921695-13-9

Individual evidence

↑ Herodotus , Histories 2, 25
↑ August Boeckh : Explanation of an Aegytic document in Greek cursive , Berlin 1821, p. 59 [1]
↑ Georg Curtius : Basic features of the Greek etymology , p. 332 with further references [2] ; also Ludwig Preller: Greek Mythology , Volume 1, Berlin 1860, p. 370 fn. 6 [3]
↑ August Heinrich Petiscus: The Olympus or mythology of the Greeks and Romans , Leipzig 1860, p. 182 [4]

[1] Herodotus , Histories 2, 25

[2] August Boeckh : Explanation of an Aegytic document in Greek cursive , Berlin 1821, p. 59 [1]

[3] Georg Curtius : Basic features of the Greek etymology , p. 332 with further references [2] ; also Ludwig Preller: Greek Mythology , Volume 1, Berlin 1860, p. 370 fn. 6 [3]

[4] August Heinrich Petiscus: The Olympus or mythology of the Greeks and Romans , Leipzig 1860, p. 182 [4]