Angelos
deity underworld single tradition · 2
In Greek mythology, Angelos was a daughter of Zeus and Hera. She stole her mother Hera's anointments and gave them away to Europa. Zeus ordered the Cabeiroi to cleanse Angelos, and consequently, she received the world of the dead as her realm of influence, and was assigned an epithet katachthonia ("she of the underworld").
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When
- First attested
- 300 BCE
- Attested period
- -300 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested in scholia on Theocritus' Idyll 2.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Hecate, Artemis (Diana)
- enemy of
- Hera
- aspect of
- Artemis (Diana)
- co occurs with
- Aphaea, Aeginaea, Aetole, Agoraea, Despoinai, Agrotera, Alphaea, Amarynthia, Amphipyros, Apanchomene, Helene, Dentritis, Kondyleatis, Aricina, Ariadne, Britomartis, Alpheus, Virbius, Anaïtis
Mentioned by
Sources
wikipedia (2)
Source passages
“In Greek mythology, Angelos (Ancient Greek: Ἄγγελος) or Angelia (Ἀγγελία) was a daughter of Zeus and Hera.”
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“Angelos, messenger, envoy, title of Artemis at Syracuse in Sicily.”
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