Apaturia (Greek mythology)
Apaturia (
Ancient Greek: Ἀπατουρία) was an epithet given to more than one goddess in Greek mythology
. The name meant "the deceitful".
Athena
The name Apaturia was given to the goddess
Sphairia to pour a libation for a charioteer of Pelops. After Aethra awoke she traveled to the island and was there raped by the god Poseidon.[1]
Aethra later established there a temple to this aspect of the goddess, and started a custom where brides would offer up their maidenhood belts before marriage to Athena Apaturia.[2][3][4] Athena Apaturia continued to be worshipped by the Troezenians in this manner.[5]
Aphrodite
Apaturia was an epithet of the goddess
Taurian Chersonesus, where it originated, according to tradition, in this way: Aphrodite was attacked by giants, and called Heracles to her assistance. He concealed himself with her in a cavern, and as the giants approached her one by one, she surrendered them to Heracles to kill them.[6][7]
Notes
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.33.1
- ISBN 9780230620919. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ISBN 9781443868594. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ISBN 9781608682188. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ISBN 9780521224963. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ^ Strabo, Geographica xi. p.495
- ^ Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica, s.v Ἀπάτουρον
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Apaturia". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. p. 220.
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