Adephagia
Adephagia (/ædiˈfeɪdʒiə/,[1] Ancient Greek: Ἀδηφαγία) was a figure described as having a temple in Sicily. According to Claudius Aelianus's Varia Historia and a fragment of Polemon, nearby to her temple was a statue of Demeter Sitō ('Goddess of Grain').[2] According to Konrad Wernicke, she was the personification of "abundant satiety" and a form of Demeter.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Stedman, Thomas Lathrop (1922). A practical medical dictionary. New York: William Wood.
- ^ Aelian, Varia Historia 1.27 (Wilson, pp. 50–51); Polemon, in Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae 416c (Olson, pp. 448–449). The quoted translation is from Olson.
- ^ Wernicke, para. 1.
References
[edit]- Athenaeus, The Learned Banqueters, Volume IV: Books 8-10.420e, edited and translated by S. Douglas Olson, Loeb Classical Library No. 235, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-674-99626-7. Harvard University Press.
- Aelian, Historical Miscellany, translated by Nigel G. Wilson, Loeb Classical Library No. 486, Cambridge Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-674-99535-2. Harvard University Press.
Further reading
[edit]- David Whitehead, Observations on Adephagia (in Rheinisches Museum. 145, 2002 P 175-186) [1]
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