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Greek terracotta pyxis (box) depicting an Athenian lady with Aphrodite and her companions Peitho (Persuasion), Hygeia (Health), Eudaimonia (Good Fortune), Eukleia (Good Repute), Eunomia (Good Order), and Paidia (Play). The box propably served as a wedding gift.
420 - 410 BCE, Meidias Painter
Metropolitan Museum of Art 09.221.40a, b
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would love to see you draw the Horai again <3 your art is so lovely!
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Which underrated Greek deities do you wish more people knew about ?
While they obviously don't have many myths like the major Olympian gods, here's a few I think about not unoften:
Psamathe - A tragic Nereid who shares a more than few parallels with her well known sister Thetis.
Astraea - Most of her lore comes from Rome I think... but it's still pretty cool lore.
Zephyrus - Actually fairly well known, but he's only known as the villain in the Hyacinthus myth when there's way more to him than that.
Nerites - Prettyboy lover of Aphrodite OR Poseidon, I like to merge the 2 myths and consider him the lover of both though. Not that obscure anymore but I particularly like the myth where he & Poseidon have Anteros together.
Mnemosyne - Most underrated immortal lover of Zeus. Doesn't feature in many myths but her daughters are the muses who are all cool, and the story of how her daughters were conceived is a bit funny.
Delphin - Dolphin god. Poseidon's wingman who convinced Amphitrite to marry him.
Thalassa - Primordial Sea Goddess. I consider her Aphrodite's mother... and Delphin's... she's called the mother of fishes idk...
Perses & Asteria - Hekate's parents. I can't think of anything relevant Perses did except father Hekate but the way Hesiod describes his love for Asteria is described is so sweet. Asteria's story of being forced to give up her body to avoid being assaulted by Zeus & Poseidon is tragic, but her resilience is admirable.
The Horae (Dike, Eunomia, & Eirene) - Zeus & Themis's eldest set of triplets. There aren't really myths that feature them and are rather only mentioned in passing, but they're technically Zeus's firstborns out of his several hundreds of kids so I think they're kinda unique for that.
" EUKLEIA AND EUNOMIA, APHRODITE AND ARTEMIS, DEER"
eukleia actually shows up a decent bit in pottery but like I dunno she sure is standing around. at least in this shes hanging with the girl squad lol
Also, btw, yeah, Eukleia is the daughter of Hephaestus and Agleia.
Eunomia is the goddess of law and legislation. She is one of the Horae.
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"Eunomia and that unsullied fountain Dike, her sister, sure support of cities; and Irene, of the same kin, who are the stewards of wealth for mankind--three glorious daughters of wise-counselled Themis."
-Pindar, Olympian Ode 13. 6 ff (trans. Conway) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.)
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Pindar's Zeus created the universe. Aelius Aristides (Or. 45.106) states that he was depicted creating gods who might adorn, with words and music, 'these great deeds and his entire work of construction'. Choricius of Gaza gives an extended summary of the scene: 'Pindar represented even the gods as reluctant to hymn the acts of munificence performed by Zeus for the benefit of men; for it seemed. . .to the poet that the highest praise of Zeus lay in the fact that none of the Olympians dared praise him; and so in Pindar, Zeus sat enthroned, having recently created order in the universe, and the gods were in his presence, struck dumb with astonishment at the wonder of what they saw; and when Zeus asked whether they were lacking anything, the gods said that his works of creation lacked one thing only, that he had brought forth nobody who might aspire to the measure of his accomplishments in expressions of praise.' Choricius' 'works of creation' suggest a Zeus akin to the cosmic artificer of Plato's Timaeus. … Pindar's supreme deity is essentially benevolent towards mankind.37 Citing fr. 30, Clement identifies his beneficent rule with the dispensation of justice (Strom. 5.14.137.1): ('and Pindar openly introduces saviour Zeus co-habiting with Themis: a king, a just saviour'). … Choricius too suggests a more general benevolence in 'acts of munificence performed for the benefit of men'. … Something of the poet's conception of the cosmos and its organising principles may be inferred from the epithets of Zeus' first children, by Themis, the Horai (that is, the Hesiodic Dike, Eirene, Eunômia): 'with golden diadem' suggests anthropomorphic personification; 'bringers of splendid fruits' signifies the growth of crops associated with the physical passage of the annual seasons; and 'true' takes us into the metaphysical territory represented by Dike and her sisters. The Themis fragment as a whole presents us with the intersection of cosmogony, the traditional blessings of fruitfulness brought by the annually recurring seasons, the extension of the latter into the principles of universal order (with circularity at their centre) and the identification with all of these of the creator figure, Zeus. - Pindar's 'Theban' Cosmogony (The First Hymn) by Alex Hardie
