Ichnaea
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Mythology
At the birth of Apollo on Delos according to the Homeric hymn, the goddesses who bear witness to the rightness of the birth are the great goddesses of the old order: Dione, Rhea, the Ichnaean goddess, Themis, and the sea-goddess "loud-moaning" Amphitrite.[2] While, Strabo, in his Geographica, says that the "Ichnaean Themis" is worshipped at the town of Ichnae,[3] and William Smith suggests that the name "may have been derived" from the town.[4]
Lycophron evokes her in Alexandra: "...like Guneus, a doer of justice and arbiter of the Sun's daughter of Ichnae".[5]
See also
Notes
- Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo, 96; Gantz, p. 52.
- Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo, 95–100.
- ^ Strabo, Geographica 9.5.14 (Hamilton and Falconer's translation; Jones' translation) Hamilton and Falconer translate it as "Ichnæ, where the Ichnæan Themis is worshipped", while Jones translates it as "Ichnae, where the Ichnaean Themis is held in honor".
- ^ Smith, s.v. Ichnaea.
- ^ Lycophron, Alexandra 128 ff
References
- ISBN 978-0-8018-5362-3(Vol. 2).
- Homeric Hymn 3 to Apollo, in The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London (1873). Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Strabo, Geography, edited and translated by H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A., London, George Bell & Sons, 1903. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
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- Lycophron, Alexandra (or Cassandra) in Callimachus and Lycophron with an English translation by A. W. Mair; Aratus, with an English translation by G. R. Mair, London: W. Heinemann, New York: G. P. Putnam 1921.