Menrva
Menrva | |
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Goddess of war, art, wisdom, and health | |
Parents | Uni and Tinia |
Equivalents | |
Greek equivalent | Athena |
Roman equivalent | Minerva |
Menrva (also spelled Menerva or Menfra) was an
Although Menrva was seen by Hellenized Etruscans as their counterpart to
Often, Menrva is depicted in a more essentially Etruscan style, as a lightning thrower.
Menrva seems to have been associated with weather phenomena. The Greeks never attributed an association with weather to Athena,[8] making this another important difference between the two religious cults that demonstrates their separate characteristics.
Menrva's name is indigenous to Italy and might even be of Etruscan origin, stemming from an Italic moon goddess, *Meneswā 'She who measures'.
Menrva often was depicted in the Judgement of Paris, called Elcsntre (Alexander, his alternative name in Greek) in Etruscan, one of the most popular Greek myths in Etruria.[citation needed]
Menrva was part of a
References
- ^ The process, by analogy with interpretatio graeca, was termed interpretatio etrusca by L. B. van der Meer, Interpretatio Etrusca': Greek Myths on Etruscan Mirrors(Amsterdam) 1995.
- Praeneste, illustrated in Larissa Bonfante and Judith Swaddling, Etruscan Myths (Series The Legendary Past, British Museum/University of Texas), 2006, fig. 28, p. 43.
- ^ de Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend, page 76
- ^ Illustrated in Bonfante and Swaddling 2006, fig. 30, p. 45.
- ^ Illustrated in Bonfante and Swaddling 2006, fig. 31, p. 46.
- ^ Bonfante and Swaddling 2006, p.38, fig. 23.
- ^ Dhar, Rittika (2022-11-03). "Minerva: Roman Goddess of Wisdom and Justice | History Cooperative". Retrieved 2024-02-26.
- ^ Nancy Thomson de Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend, (Philadelphia, 2006) p.71.
- ^ Cinaglia, Tiziano. "Minerva et Diana, quas ais pariter colendas ovvero, la connotazione lunare di Minerva". In: Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, vol. 45, n°2, 2019. pp. 222-223. www.persee.fr/doc/dha_0755-7256_2019_num_45_2_4775
- ^ de Grummond, Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend, page 71
- ^ Becker, A Modern Theory of Language Evolution 2004, p. 190: mentions *MN preserved in Greek as "Mnemosyne"/μνημοσύνη, and Minerva.
External links
- Media related to Menrva at Wikimedia Commons