Anthelioi
Anthelioi (
Ancient Greek: Ἀνθήλιοι δαίμονες) or Antelii or Anthelii were certain divinities whose images stood before the doors of houses,[1] and were exposed to the sun, from which they derived their name,[2][3] which is literally "gods that face the sun".[4] The sun conceptually was to animate the statues with its pneuma.[4]
These deities were similar in character to a number of other gateway-gods, including
Apollo Thyraeus, protector of doorways.[1]
Notes
- ^ ISBN 9781465588432. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
- ^ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 530
- ^ Christian Lobeck, On the Ajax of Sophocles 805
- ^ ISBN 9780987559821. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Anthelii". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 184.
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