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[edit]
The name Apaturia was given to the goddess Athena by Aethra, the mother of Theseus, who received a dream from Athena urging her to travel to the island of 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[edit]
Apaturia was an epithet of the goddess Aphrodite at Phanagoria and other places in the 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[edit]
- ^ Pausanias, Description of Greece 2.33.1
- ^ Rigoglioso, Marguerite (2009). The Cult of Divine Birth in Ancient Greece. Palgrave Macmillan. p. 76. ISBN 9780230620919. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ^ Håland, Evy Johanne (2014). Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece: Writing History from a Female Perspective. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 139, 436. ISBN 9781443868594. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ^ Monaghan, Patricia, ed. (2014). "Aethra". Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines. New World Library. p. 222. ISBN 9781608682188. Retrieved 2016-02-19.
- ^ Hammond, N.G.L., ed. (1924). The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 716. 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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