Euthenia
Euthenia (Ancient Greek: Eυθηνια) was a goddess and personification of abundance, particularly the abundance of wheat associated with the flooding of the Nile.[1] The Ancient Greek common noun euthenia ("prosperity, plenty, abundance")[2] like the Latin annona,[3] was used to refer to the grain-supply, and the divine personification Euthenia, is the Greek equivalent of either of the Roman divine personifications Annona or Abundantia.[4]
Rome
[edit]On Roman coins, Euthenia is often compared to Abundantia, the personification of abundance and prosperity,[5] and Annona, the personification of the grain supply to Rome.[citation needed]
Egypt
[edit]She is also a part of the Egyptian pantheon, though was later assimilated to tales related to Goddess Isis. During Ptolemaic times, she became the consort of Nilus.[5] Her first appearance on Egyptian coins date back to the last decade of BC.[6]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Jentel, p. 120; LSJ, s.v. εὐθηνία; RE, s.v. Euthenia.
- ^ The Cambridge Greek Lexicon, s.v. εὐθενία (variant reading εὐθενεια); LSJ, s.v. εὐθηνία.
- ^ The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary, s.v. annona.
- ^ Erdkamp, s.v. Annona (grain); Jentel, p. 120.
- ^ a b "Curtis Chapter I". www.coinsofromanegypt.org. Archived from the original on 2023-10-20. Retrieved 2020-04-07.
- ^ Kákosy, László (1982). "The Nile, Euthenia, and the Nymphs". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 68: 290–298. doi:10.2307/3821647. ISSN 0307-5133. JSTOR 3821647.
References
[edit]- Pauly, August, Georg Wissowa, Wilhelm Kroll, Kurt Witte, Karl Mittelhaus, Konrat Ziegler, Hans Gärtner (eds), Paulys Real-Encyclopaedie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft. Stuttgart: J. B. Metzler, 1893-1980.
- The Cambridge Greek Lexicon, edited by J. Diggle et al, Cambridge University Press, 2021 ISBN 978-0-521-82680-8.
- Erdkamp, s.v. Annona (grain), published online 07 March 2016, in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, edited by Tim Whitmarsh, digital ed, New York, Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-938113-5.
- Jentel, s.v. Euthenia, in Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC) IV.1 EROS-HERAKLES, Artemis Verlag, Zürich and Munich. 1988. ISBN 3-7608-8751-1. Internet Archive.
- Liddell, Henry George, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1940. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary, edited by James Morwood, Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0-19-864227-X.
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